Genesis 33
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And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And, behold, Esau was coming, and four
hundred men with him. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and
to the two slave-girls. 2 And he put the slave-girls and their children first;
and Leah and her children behind: and Rachel and Joseph last. 3 And he passed
over in front of them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came
even to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on
his neck and kissed him. And they wept. 5 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the
women and the children. And he said, Who are these with you? And he said, The
children with whom God has favored your servant. 6 And the slave-girls came
near, they and their children; and they bowed. 7 And Leah and her children also
came near and bowed. And afterward Rachel and Joseph came near and bowed. 8 And
he said, Whose is all this camp which I met? And he said, To find favor in the
eyes of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have much, my brother. Let what you have be
to yourself. 10 And Jacob said, No, please, if I now have found favor in your
eyes, take my present from my hands. For I have seen your face, like seeing the
face of God; and you are pleased with me. 11 Please take my blessing which has
been brought to you, because God has favored me, and because I have all things.
And he urged him; and he accepted. 12 And he said, Let us depart and go, and I
will go with you. 13 And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are
tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are suckling. And if they
overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Please let my lord go
before the face of his servant, and I will move on by stages at my ease,
according to the feet of the livestock which are before me, and according to
the pace of the boys, until I come into my lord to Seir.
15 And Esau said, Please let me place with you some of the people who are with
me. And he said, Why, then? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord. 16 And
Esau returned on his way toward Seir that day. 17 And
Jacob traveled to Succoth. And he built himself a house, and made booths for
his livestock. For this reason he called the name of the place Succoth. 18 And
Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is
in the land of Canaan, as he came from Padan-aram.
And he camped in front of the city. 19 And he bought that part of the field
where he had pitched his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor,
the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of money.
20 And he set up an altar there. And he called it, El, the God of Israel.