| 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. 2 And he put the handmaids
and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and
Joseph hindermost. 3 And he himself 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 these with thee? And he said, The
children whom God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaids
came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah
also and 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 company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight
of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which
thou hast be thine. 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. 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. 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 that the flocks and herds with me have their
young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 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. 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. 16 So
Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 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.
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.
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. 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-israel.
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