GE-33:1  And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold,

Esau

came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children

unto

Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

GE-33:2  And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,

and

Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

GE-33:3  And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the

ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

GE-33:4  And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on

his

neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

GE-33:5  And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the

children; and said, Who [are] those with thee? And he said, The

children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

GE-33:6  Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children,

 and

they bowed themselves.

GE-33:7  And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed

themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed

themselves.

GE-33:8  And he said, What [meanest] thou by all this drove

which I

met? And he said, [These are] to find grace in the sight of my

lord.

GE-33:9  And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that

thou hast

unto thyself.

GE-33:10  And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found

grace

in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore

I have

seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou

wast

pleased with me.

GE-33:11  Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee;

because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have

enough.

And he urged him, and he took [it].

GE-33:12  And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go,

and I

will go before thee.

GE-33:13  And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children

[are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me:

and

if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

GE-33:14  Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant:

 and

I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before

me

and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord

unto

Seir.

GE-33:15  And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of

the folk

that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find

grace in

the sight of my lord.

GE-33:16  So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

GE-33:17  And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house,

 and

made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is

called

Succoth.

GE-33:18  And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which

[is] in

the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his

tent

before the city.

GE-33:19  And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread

his

tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father,

for an

hundred pieces of money.

GE-33:20  And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-

Israel.



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