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Chapter 33 |
| 1 | And Jacob
lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four
hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto
the two handmaids. |
| 2 | And he put the handmaids and their children
foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph
hindermost. |
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| And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the
ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. |
| 4 | And Esau ran
to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they
wept. |
| 5 |
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children;
and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath
graciously given thy servant. |
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6 | Then the handmaidens came near, they
and their children, and they bowed themselves. |
| 7 | And Leah also
with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near
and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. |
| 8 | And he said, What meanest thou
by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the
sight of my lord. |
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9 | And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that
thou hast unto thyself. |
| 10 | And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I
have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for
therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou
wast pleased with me. |
| 11 | Take, I pray thee, my blessing 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. |
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12 | And he said, Let us take
our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. |
| 13 | And he said
unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and
herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the
flock will die. |
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14 | Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his
servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before
me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto
Seir. |
| 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 grace in the sight
of my lord. |
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16 | So Esau returned that day on his way unto
Seir. |
| 17 |
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and
made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called
Succoth. |
| 18
| And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in
the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before
the city. |
| 19
| And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread
his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an
hundred pieces of money. |
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20 | And he erected there an altar, and
called it EleloheIsrael. |
