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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.
02 And he put the handmaids and their
children foremost, and Leah and her children
after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
03 And he passed over before them, and
bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he
came near to his brother.
04 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced
him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and
they wept.
05 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.
06 Then the handmaidens came near, they and
their children, and they bowed themselves.
07 And Leah also with her children came
near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph
near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
20 And he erected there an altar, and
called it EleloheIsrael.
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