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Genesis 33:1-20 — Jacob Meets Esau
Gen.33.1-20
1Jacob looked up and saw that Esau was coming, with four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants. 2He put the maidservants and their children first, Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph last. 3Jacob himself went on ahead of them and bowed to the ground seven times until he came near his brother. 4But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 5Then Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and he said, “Who are these with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.” 6Then the maidservants came near, they and their children, and they bowed down. 7Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed down. 8Esau said, “What do you mean by all this company that I met?” Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.” 9Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what is yours.” 10Jacob said, “No, please. If I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand, for I have seen your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.” 11Please accept my gift that has been brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and because I have everything." So he urged him, and Esau took it. 12Then Esau said, “Let us set out and go, and I will go alongside you.” 13But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are delicate, and that the flocks and herds nursing their young are in my care. If they are driven hard for even one day, all the flocks will die.” 14Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock before me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir." 15Then Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But Jacob said, “Why should that be? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.” 16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 17But Jacob traveled to Succoth, and he built a house for himself and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the place was named Succoth. 18And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city. 19He bought the plot of land where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver. 20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel .
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4/11/2026
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