Genesis 32:20-21

32:20 You must also say, ‘In fact your servant Jacob is behind us.’” Jacob thought, “I will first appease him by sending a gift ahead of me. After that I will meet him. Perhaps he will accept me.” 32:21 So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

Genesis 18:2

18:2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing across from him. When he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

Genesis 33:10

33:10 “No, please take them,” Jacob said. “If I have found favor in your sight, accept my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, it is as if I have seen the face of God.

Genesis 42:6

42:6 Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 43:11

43:11 Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: Take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and take a gift down to the man – a little balm and a little honey, spices and myrrh, pistachios and almonds.

Genesis 43:26

43:26 When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought inside, and they bowed down to the ground before him.

Genesis 43:1

The Second Journey to Egypt

43:1 Now the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 25:27

25:27 When the boys grew up, Esau became a skilled hunter, a man of the open fields, but Jacob was an even-tempered man, living in tents.

Proverbs 17:8

17:8 A bribe works like a charm for the one who offers it;

in whatever he does he succeeds.

Proverbs 18:16

18:16 A person’s gift makes room for him,

and leads him before important people.

Proverbs 19:6

19:6 Many people entreat the favor of a generous person,

and everyone is the friend of the person who gives gifts.

Proverbs 21:14

21:14 A gift given in secret subdues anger,

and a bribe given secretly subdues strong wrath.