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Genesis 33

Jacob Meets Esau

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Then Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and behold,  aEsau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children  1among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

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He put the maids and their children  1in front, and Leah and her children  2next, and Rachel and Joseph  2last.

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But he himself passed on ahead of them and  abowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and  afell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

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He lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, " 1Who are these with you?" So he said, " aThe children whom God has graciously given your servant."

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Then the maids came near  1with their children, and they bowed down.

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Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

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And he said, "What do you mean by  aall this company which I have met?" And he said, " bTo find favor in the sight of my lord."

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But Esau said, " aI have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own."

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Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand,  1for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.

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"Please take my  1 agift which has been brought to you,  bbecause God has dealt graciously with me and because I have  2plenty." Thus he urged him and he took it.

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Then  1Esau said, "Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you."

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But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are  1a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.

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"Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, 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 at  aSeir."

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Esau said, "Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, " 1What need is there?  aLet me find favor in the sight of my lord."

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So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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Jacob journeyed to  1 aSuccoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

Jacob Settles in Shechem

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Now Jacob came safely to the city of  aShechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from  bPaddan-aram, and camped before the city.

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 aHe bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred  1pieces of money.

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Then he erected there an altar and called it  1El-Elohe-Israel.



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