Chapter 33
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And Jacob lifted his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming with four hundred men. And he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maidservants.
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He placed the maidservants and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
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And he passed over before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.
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Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
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He lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children. He said, "Who are these with you?" He replied, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
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And the handmaids approached with their children, and they prostrated themselves.
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Leah approached with her children, and they bowed down. Then Joseph and Rachel approached, and they bowed down.
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He said, "What is this group of yours that I met?" He said, "To find favor in the eyes of my lord."
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And Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother. Keep what is yours."
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Jacob said, "No, please. If I have now found favor in your eyes, then take my gift from my hand. For in this way I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you have accepted me."
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Please take my blessing which you have brought to me, for God has shown me favor and indeed I have everything. And he urged him, and he took it.
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And he said, "Let us journey and let us go, and I will go before you."
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He said to him, "My lord, you know that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds are nursing with me. If they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die."
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May my lord please go on ahead of his servant, and I will go slowly, at the pace of the livestock ahead of me and of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.
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And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my men with you." And he said, "Why? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."
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And Esau returned that day to his way, to Seir.
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And Jacob journeyed to Sukkot and built himself a house, and for his livestock he made booths. For this reason he called the name of the place Sukkot.
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And Jacob came to Salem, city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-Aram, and he pitched his tent toward the face of the city.
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And he bought the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent there from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred qesitahs.
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And he set up an altar there and called it God of Israel.