33:1 Then Jacob looked up
and saw Esau approaching
with 400 men.
So he divided the children
between Leah and Rachel
and the two maids.
33:2 In front he put his maids
with their children
then Leah with her children
and Rachel and Joseph behind.
33:3 He went in front of them
and bowed down
to the ground seven times
as he drew near to his brother.
33:4 Esau ran to meet him
and embraced him
and pressed up against him
and kissed him
and they wept.
33:5 Esau looked up and saw
the women and children
and said:
Who are these with you?
Jacob answered:
These children did God
graciously give your subject.
33:6 The maidens and their children
came forward and bowed down.
33:7 Then Leah came forward.
She and her children
also bowed down.
Then afterwards
Joseph came forward with Rachel
and they bowed down.
33:8 Then Esau said:
Why have you brought me
all these herds?
Jacob responded:
To please my teacher.
33:9 Then Esau said:
I have plenty my brother.
You should keep what you have.
33:10 Then Jacob said:
Please no
if I have pleased you
then please accept
the gift from me
because seeing your face
is like seeing the face of God
as you are pleased with me.
33:11 Please accept my blessing
because God has been gracious to me
and I have enough.
Thus he urged him
and he accepted it.
33:12 Esau replied:
Let us continue the journey
ahead together.
33:13 But Jacob said to him:
Sir you know the children are young
and I have young animals with me.
If they are driven too hard
then all of them could die.
33:14 So please sir go ahead.
Travel on ahead of your subject
and I will travel more slowly
pacing with the flocks, herds and children
until I reach my teacher in Seir.
33:15 Then Esau said:
Let me leave some people with you.
Jacob replied:
Why do this? Simply let me
find grace in the eyes of my Lord.
33:16 On that day Esau got going
on his journey back to Seir.
33:17 Then Jacob traveled to Succoth
and built himself a house
and made stalls for his herd.
Thus he named that place Succoth (stalls).
33:18 Then Jacob went to Shalem
a village in Shechem in
As he traveled from Padan-Aram
and camped out outside the village.
33:19 Then he purchased the land
where he pitched his tent
from the the sons of Hamor
who was the father of Shechem
for a hundred pieces of money.
33:20 And there he set up an altar
and dedicated it to God
the God of
