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| 33:1 |
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.
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| 33:2 |
He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
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| 33:3 |
He himself went on ahead of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his brother.
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| 33:4 |
But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
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| 33:5 |
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
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| 33:6 |
Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;
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| 33:7 |
Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and finally Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
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| 33:8 |
Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor with my lord."
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| 33:9 |
But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."
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| 33:10 |
Jacob said, "No, please; if I find favor with you, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God-- since you have received me with such favor.
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| 33:11 |
Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want." So he urged him, and he took it.
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| 33:12 |
Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go alongside you."
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| 33:13 |
But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.
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| 33:14 |
Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir."
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| 33:15 |
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?"
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| 33:16 |
So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
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| 33:17 |
But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the place is called Succoth.
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| 33:18 |
Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.
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| 33:19 |
And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for one hundred pieces of money the plot of land on which he had pitched his tent.
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| 33:20 |
There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
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