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Genesis 33

Genesis 33

Genesis 33:1 ^
And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
Genesis 33:1 ^
Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.
Genesis 33:2 ^
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Genesis 33:2 ^
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
Genesis 33:3 ^
And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Genesis 33:3 ^
And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.
Genesis 33:4 ^
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Genesis 33:4 ^
Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.
Genesis 33:5 ^
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.
Genesis 33:5 ^
Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.
Genesis 33:6 ^
Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33:6 ^
Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.
Genesis 33:7 ^
And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33:7 ^
And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.
Genesis 33:8 ^
And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 33:8 ^
And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.
Genesis 33:9 ^
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which thou hast be thine.
Genesis 33:9 ^
But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.
Genesis 33:10 ^
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
Genesis 33:10 ^
And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.
Genesis 33:11 ^
Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
Genesis 33:11 ^
Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.
Genesis 33:12 ^
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
Genesis 33:12 ^
And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.
Genesis 33:13 ^
And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
Genesis 33:13 ^
But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.
Genesis 33:14 ^
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
Genesis 33:14 ^
Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.
Genesis 33:15 ^
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 33:15 ^
And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?
Genesis 33:16 ^
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
Genesis 33:16 ^
So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.
Genesis 33:17 ^
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Genesis 33:17 ^
And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.
Genesis 33:18 ^
And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.
Genesis 33:18 ^
So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.
Genesis 33:19 ^
And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.
Genesis 33:19 ^
And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.
Genesis 33:20 ^
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.
Genesis 33:20 ^
And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.
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