Genesis:33

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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 . * And he put the handmaids and their children foremost , and Leah and her children after , and Rachel and Joseph hindermost . * And he himself passed on before them , and bowed himself to the ground seven times , until he came near to his brother . * And Esau ran to meet him , and embraced him , and fell on his neck , and kissed him ; and they wept . * 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 . * Then came the handmaids near , they and their children , and they bowed themselves . * And Leah also with her children came near , and they bowed themselves ; and after that came Joseph near and Rachel , and they bowed themselves . * And he said , What meanest thou by all this drove which I have met ? And he said , To find grace in the eyes of my lord . * And Esau said , I have enough , my brother , keep unto thyself what thou hast . * And Jacob said , This must not be , I pray thee ; if I have but found grace in thy eyes , then do thou receive my present at my hand ; since I have seen thy face , it is as though I had seen the face of an angel , and because thou hast received me kindly . * Take , I pray thee , my present that is brought to thee ; because God hath dealt graciously with me , and because I have a plenty of all . And he urged him , and he took it . * And he said , Let us depart , and move farther , and I will travel near thee . * And he said unto him , My lord knoweth that the children are tender , and the flocks and herds with young are a charge on me : and if they should overdrive them one day , all the flock would die . * Let my lord , I pray thee , pass on before his servant : and I will lead on slowly , according to the cattle that goeth before me and the children may be able to travel , until I come unto my lord unto Seir . * And Esau said , Let me , I pray thee , leave with thee some of the people that are with me . And he said , What needeth it ? let me only final grace in the eyes of my lord . * So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir . * And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built himself a house , and for his cattle he made booths ; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth . * And Jacob came in good health to the city of Shechem , which is in the land of Canaan , when he came from Padan –aram ; and he encamped before the city . * And he bought the parcel of the field , where he had spread his tent , at the hand of the children of Chamor , the father of Shechem , for a hundred kessitah . * And he erected there an altar , and called it , El –Elohe –Yisrael .

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