b.
Being welcomed by Esau
33:1-16
Gen. 33
:1
33:1
And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and there was Esau coming, and
afour hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel and among the two female servants.
Gen. 33
:2
33:2
And he put the female servants and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Gen. 33
:3
33:3
And he himself passed on before them and bowed down to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.
Gen. 33
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33:4
And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and
1kissed him, and they wept.
Gen. 33
:5
33:5
And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God has
agraciously given your servant.
Gen. 33
:6
33:6
Then the female servants came near, they and their children, and they bowed down.
Gen. 33
:7
33:7
And Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.
Gen. 33
:8
33:8
And 1Esau said, What do you mean by all this
acamp which I met? And he said, To find
bfavor in the sight of my lord.
Gen. 33
:9
33:9
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what you have be yours.
Gen. 33
:10
33:10
And Jacob said, No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand; for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
Gen. 33
:11
33:11
Please take my
ablessing which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have all
that I need. So he urged him, and he took
it.
Gen. 33
:12
33:12
Then 1Esau said, Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you.
Gen. 33
:13
33:13
And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are frail and that the nursing flocks and herds are a concern to me; and if they overdrive them for one day, all the flock will die.
Gen. 33
:14
33:14
Let my lord please pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.
Gen. 33
:15
33:15
So Esau said, Let me please leave with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, What need is there? Let me
afind favor in the sight of my lord.
Gen. 33
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33:16
So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
c.
Returning to Canaan but only to Shechem
33:17-20
Gen. 33
:17
33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth and
1built a house for himself and made booths for his livestock; therefore the name of the place is called
2Succoth.
Gen. 33
:18
33:18
And Jacob came
1safely to the city of
2Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.
Gen. 33
:19
33:19
And he
abought the piece of land, where he had pitched his
btent, from the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.
Gen. 33
:20
33:20
And there he erected an
1aaltar and called it
2El-Elohe-Israel.
