Genesis 21:27

³¹without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

¹⁶A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

²⁴A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹³He took one of the royal offspring,^[+] and made a covenant with him. He also brought him under an oath, and took away the mighty of the land,

⁸But the noble devises noble things, and he will continue in noble things.

⁸A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

⁴⁴Now come, let’s make a covenant, you and I. Let it be for a witness between me and you.”

²⁸They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you, ²⁹that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of the LORD.”

³⁰He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. ³¹They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

¹⁴A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.

²²Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth, ²³that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’