20 And YOU must say also, ‘Here is your servant Jacob behind us.’”+ For he said to himself: “I may appease him by the gift going ahead of me,+ and afterward I shall see his face. Perhaps he will give a kindly reception.”+

16 When David himself had crossed over a little beyond the summit,+ there was Ziʹba+ the attendant of Me·phibʹo·sheth+ to meet him with a couple of asses+ saddled and upon them two hundred loaves of bread+ and a hundred cakes of raisins+ and a hundred loads of summer fruit+ and a large jar of wine.+

16 A man’s gift* will make a large opening for him,+ and it will lead him even before great people.+

6 Many are those who soften the face of a noble,+ and everybody is a companion to the man making gifts.+