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Jacob Meets Esau

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two female servants.

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Jacob Meets Esau

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:

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And he put the servants with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

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and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

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He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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And he passed on before them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

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And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.

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And when Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

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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 that God has graciously given thy servant.

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Then the servants drew near, they and their children, and bowed down.

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And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.

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Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down. And last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.

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And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed.

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Esau said, “What do you mean by all this companya that I met?” Jacob answered, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

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And he said, What [meanest] thou by all the drove which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.

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But Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”

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And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what thou hast be thine.

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Jacob said, “No, please, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, and you have accepted me.

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And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; if now I have found favour in thine eyes, then receive my gift from my hand; for therefore have I seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast received me with pleasure.

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Please accept my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” Thus he urged him, and he took it.

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Take, I pray thee, my blessing which has been brought to thee; because God has been gracious to me, and because I have everything. And he urged him, and he took [it].

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Then Esau said, “Let us journey on our way, and I will go ahead ofb you.”

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And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I will go before thee.

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But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the nursing flocks and herds are a care to me. If they are driven hard for one day, all the flocks will die.

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And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die.

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Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

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Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant, and I will drive on at my ease according to the pace of the cattle that is before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir.

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So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

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And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the people that are with me. And he said, What need? Let me find favour in the eyes of my lord.

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So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

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But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.c

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And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the place was called Succoth.

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And Jacob came safelyd to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.

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Jacob Settles in Shechem

And Jacob came safely [to the] city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.

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And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for a hundred pieces of moneye the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

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And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs.

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There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.f

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And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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Genesis 33

Genesis 33