¹³ Then she said, “May I continue to find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, even though I am not one of your servants.”

¹⁸ And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your sight.” Then the woman went her way and ate and drank with her husband,^[a] and her countenance was sad no longer.^[b](A)

¹⁵ So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why should my lord be so kind to me?”^(A)

³ Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.^(A)

⁴ Then the king said to Ziba, “All that belonged to Mephibosheth is now yours.” Ziba said, “I do obeisance; let me find favor in your sight, my lord the king.”

⁴¹ She rose and bowed down, with her face to the ground, and said, “Your servant is a slave to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”^(A)

³ Then her husband set out after her, to speak tenderly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. When he reached^[a] her father’s house, the young woman’s father saw him and came with joy to meet him.^(A)

¹⁴ may God Almighty^[a] grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”^(A)

³ And his soul was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.