Genesis 32:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

will appease him. Hebrew "cover his face", i.e. hide my offence from him: "face" being put by Synecdoche (of the Part), for himself.

of me. Hebrew my face. Synecdoche (of the Part), App-6.

Genesis 32:20

20 And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.d