33AND JACOB raised his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming and with him 400 men. So he divided the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two maids.H3290H5375H5869H7200H6215H935H702H3967H376H2673H3206H3812H7354H8147H8198 2And he put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.H7760H8198H3206H7223H3812H3206H314H7354H3130H314 3Then Jacob went over [the stream] before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.H5674H6440H7812H776H7651H6471H5066H251 4But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.H6215H7323H7125H2263H5307H6677H5401H1058 5[Esau] looked up and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And [Jacob] replied, They are the children whom God has graciously given your servant.H5375H5869H7200H802H3206H559H428H559H3206H430H2603H5650 6Then the maids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.H8198H5066H3206H7812 7And Leah also with her children came near, and they bowed themselves. After them Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed themselves.H3812H3206H5066H7812H310H5066H3130H5066H7354H7812 8Esau said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, These are that I might find favor in the sight of my lord.H559H4264H6298H559H4672H2580H5869H113 9And Esau said, I have plenty, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.H6215H559H3426H7227H251 10But Jacob replied, No, I beg of you, if now I have found favor in your sight, receive my gift that I am presenting; for truly to see your face is to me as if I had seen the face of God, and you have received me favorably.H3290H559H4672H2580H5869H3947H4503H3027H7200H6440H7200H6440H430H7521 11Accept, I beg of you, my blessing {and} gift that I have brought to you; for God has dealt graciously with me and I have everything. And he kept urging him and he accepted it.H3947H1293H935H430H2603H3605H3426H3605H6484H3947 12Then [Esau] said, Let us get started on our journey, and I will go before you.H559H5265H3212H3212 13But Jacob replied, You know, my lord, that the children are tender {and} delicate {and} need gentle care, and the flocks and herds with young are of concern to me; for if the men should overdrive them for a single day, the whole of the flocks would die.H559H113H3045H3206H7390H6629H1241H5763H1849H259H3117H6629H4191 14Let my lord, I pray you, pass over before his servant; and I will lead on slowly, governed by [consideration for] the livestock that set the pace before me and the endurance of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.H113H5674H6440H5650H5095H328H7272H4399H6440H3206H7272H935H113H8165 15Then Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me. But [Jacob] said, What need is there for it? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.H6215H559H3322H5971H559H4100H4672H2580H5869H113 16So Esau turned back that day on his way to Seir.H6215H7725H3117H1870H8165 17But Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built himself a house and made booths {or} places of shelter for his livestock; so the name of the place is called Succoth [booths].H3290H5265H5523H1129H1004H6213H5521H4735H8034H4725H7121H5523 18When Jacob came from Padan-aram, he arrived safely {and} in peace at the town of Shechem, in the land of Canaan, and pitched his tents before the [enclosed] town.H3290H935H8004H5892H7927H776H3667H935H6307H2583H6440H5892 19Then he bought the piece of land on which he had encamped from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.H7069H2513H7704H5186H168H3027H1121H2544H7927H1H3967H7192 20There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel [God, the God of Israel].H5324H4196H7121H415
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