| 33 | Genesis | ||
| 1 | Jacob raised his eyes and saw Esau coming towards him with four hundred men; so he divided the children between Leah and Rachel and the two slave-girls. | Peniel - Jacob meets Esau - Jacob's altar at Shechem. Gn.33.1-20 | |
| 2 | He put the slave-girls with their children in front, Leah with her children next, and Rachel with Joseph last. | ||
| 3 | He then went on ahead of them, bowing low to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. | ||
| 4 | Esau ran to meet him and embraced him; he threw his arms round him and kissed him, and they wept. | ||
| 5 | When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, 'Who are these with you?' Jacob replied, 'The children whom God has graciously given to your servant.' | ||
| 6 | The slave-girls came near, each with her children, and they bowed low. | ||
| 7 | Then Leah with her children came near and bowed low, and afterwards Joseph and Rachel came near and bowed low also. | ||
| 8 | Esau said, 'What was all that company of yours that I met?' And he answered, 'It was meant to win favour with you, my lord.' | ||
| 9 | Esau answered, 'I have more than enough. Keep what is yours, my brother.' | ||
| 10 | But Jacob said, 'On no account: if I have won your favour, then, I pray, accept this gift from me; for, you see, I come into your presence as into that of a god, and you receive me favourably. | ||
| 11 | Accept this gift which I bring you; for God has been gracious to me, and I have all I want.' So he urged him, and he accepted it. | ||
| 12 | Then Esau said, 'Let us set out, and I will go at your pace.' | ||
| 13 | But Jacob answered him, 'You must know, my lord, that the children are small; the flocks and herds are suckling their young and I am concerned for them, and if the men overdrive them for a single day, all my beasts will die. | ||
| 14 | I beg you, my lord, to go on ahead, and I will go by easy stages at the pace of the children and of the livestock that I am driving, until I come to my lord in Seir.' | ||
| 15 | Esau said, 'Let me detail some of my own men to escort you', but he replied, 'Why should my lord be so kind to me?' | ||
| 16 | That day Esau turned back towards Seir, | ||
| 17 | but Jacob set out for Succoth; and there he built himself a house and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore he named that place Succoth . | ||
| 18 | On his journey from Paddan-aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in Canaan and pitched his tent to the east of it. | ||
| 19 | The strip of country where he had pitched his tent he bought from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem for a hundred sheep . | ||
| 20 | There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohey-Israel . | ||
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