Quotes about Hospitality
Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
- Genesis 33:6
But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
- Genesis 33:10
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.
- Genesis 33:11
Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”
- Genesis 33:12
Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
- Genesis 33:14
“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
- Genesis 33:15
You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”
- Genesis 34:10
“These men are at peace with us. Let them live and trade in our land; indeed, it is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage and give our daughters to them.
- Genesis 34:21
Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, ‘This is how I will know whether you are honest: Leave one brother with me, take food to relieve the hunger of your households, and go.
- Genesis 42:33
And the steward took the men into Joseph’s house, gave them water to wash their feet, and provided food for their donkeys.
- Genesis 43:24
Since the brothers had been told that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.
- Genesis 43:25
When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to the ground before him.
- Genesis 43:26