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Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” So he urged him, and he took it.
Genesis 33:11 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.
  • KJV Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
  • BSB Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.
  • NASB Please accept my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty.” So he urged him, and he accepted it.
  • NLT Please take this gift I have brought you, for God has been very gracious to me. I have more than enough.” And because Jacob insisted, Esau finally accepted the gift.

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Quick answer

Jacob presses Esau to take the gift because God has dealt graciously with him and he has enough. Esau finally accepts at Jacob's urging.

Overview

Jacob attributes his abundance to God's gracious dealing, using language that means 'I have all I need.' His insistence honors Esau and expresses gratitude for God's provision. Both brothers now speak of having enough, a sign of contentment and the peace God has granted.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • 1 Sam 25:27Now this present which your servant has brought to my lord, let it be given to the young men who follow my lord.
  • Phil 4:18But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
  • Gen 33:9Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”
  • 2 Kgs 5:23Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.
  • Gen 30:43The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.
  • 1 Sam 30:26When David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the plunder to the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, “Behold, a present for you from the plunder of Yahweh’s enemies.”
  • Phil 4:11–12Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it.
  • 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
  • 2 Kgs 5:15–16He returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him; and he said, “See now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel. Now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”
  • 2 Cor 9:5–6I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.
  • 2 Cor 6:10as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
  • 2 Kgs 2:17When they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send them.” Therefore they sent fifty men; and they searched for three days, but didn’t find him.
  • Josh 15:19She said, “Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
  • Gen 32:13–20He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esau, his brother:
  • Rom 8:31–32What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
  • Luke 14:23“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
  • 1 Cor 3:21Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,
  • Judg 1:15She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.

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