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Related Verses

Genesis 32:20
and you shall say, ‘Moreover, your servant Jacob is behind us.’” For he thought, “I may appease him with the present that goes ahead of me, and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”

1 Samuel 25:27
And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.

Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is like a magic stone in the eyes of the one who gives it; wherever he turns he prospers.

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