Genesis 32:20
20 and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him1 with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”2
1 Samuel 25:27
27 And now let this bpresent that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.
Proverbs 17:8
8 yA bribe is like a magic1 stone in the eyes of the one who gives it;
wherever he turns he prospers.
