Genesis 33
33:1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and
with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to
the two handmaids.
33:2 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children
after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
33:3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to his brother.
33:4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they
wept.
33:5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who
are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your
servant."
33:6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed
themselves.
33:7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them,
Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
33:8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said,
"To find favor in the sight of my lord."
33:9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."
33:10 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then
receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the
face of God, and you were pleased with me.
33:11 Please take the gift that I brought to you; because God has dealt
graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.
33:12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before
you."
33:13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows 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.
33:14 Please let my lord 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 to my lord to Seir."
33:15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me."
He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
33:17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for
his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.{succoth means
shelters or booths.}
33:18 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.
33:19 He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand
of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
33:20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.{El Elohe Israel
means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God of Israel is mighty."}
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