Genesis 33:11
Take, I pray thee my blessing which hath been brought in to thee, because God hath shewed me favour and because I have everything. So he was urgent with him and he took it.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
12Then he said, Let us break up and go, and let me go on before thee.
Cross References
Genesis 32:13And he tarried there that night, and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother:
Genesis 32:21So the present passed over before him,—whereas he himself tarried that night in the camp.
Joshua 15:19And she said—Give me a present, for, dry land, hast thou given me, therefore must thou give me, pools of water. So he gave her upper pools and lower pools.
1 Samuel 25:27Now, therefore, this blessing which thy maid-servant hath brought to my lord, let it even be given unto the young men who are going to and fro at the feet of my lord.
2 Kings 2:17But, when they urged him until he was ashamed, he said—Send. So they sent fifty men, and made search three days, but found him not.
2 Kings 5:23And Naaman said, Be content, accept two talents. So he urged him, and bound up two talents of silver in two bags, and two changes of raiment, and laid them upon two of his young men, and they bare them before him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 33:6-16
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. 9… Read the whole commentary →