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Genesis 33
And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and
with him four hundred men: and he divided the children
of Lia, and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids:
And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost:
and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel
and Joseph last.
And he went forward and bowed down with his face to
the ground seven times until his brother came near.
Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him:
and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him,
wept.
And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their
children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong
to thee? He answered: They are the children which God
hath given to me thy servant.
Then the handmaids and their children came near, and
bowed themselves.
Lia also with her children came near, and bowed down
in like manner, and last of all Joseph and Rachel bowed
down.
And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered:
That I might find favor before my lord.
But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is
thine for thyself.
And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have
found favor in thy eyes, receive a little present at
my hands: for I have seen thy face, as if I should have
seen the countenance of God: be gracious to me,
And take the blessing, which I have brought thee, and
which God hath given me, who giveth all things. He took
it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him,
And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany
thee in thy journey.
And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with
me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young:
which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day
all the flocks will die.
May it please my lord to go before his servant: and
I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children
to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.
Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people
at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee
in the way. And he said: There is no necessity: I want
nothing else but only to find favor, my lord, in thy
sight.
So Esau returned, that day, the way that he came, to
Seir.
And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house,
and pitched tents, he called the name of the place Socoth,
that is, Tents.
And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites,
which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from
Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town:
And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched
his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem
for a hundred lambs.
And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most
mighty God of Israel.
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