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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