24 lines
2.3 KiB
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24 lines
2.3 KiB
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# Chapter 33
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1 Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.
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2 He put the slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
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3 He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.
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4 But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.
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5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?”
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He answered, “The children God has graciously given your servant.”
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6 Then the slaves and their children approached him and bowed down.
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7 Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
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8 So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession I met?”
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“To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered.
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9 “I have enough, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what you have.”
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10 But Jacob said, “No, please! If I have found favor with you, take this gift from me. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing God’s face, since you have accepted me.
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11 Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have everything I need.” So Jacob urged him until he accepted.
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12 Then Esau said, “Let’s move on, and I’ll go ahead of you.”
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13 Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing flocks and herds. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.
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14 Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
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15 Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”
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But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me, my lord.”
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16 That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
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17 but Jacob went to Succoth. He built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
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18 After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.
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19 He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
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20 And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel. |