Feb.
2
Genesis
33
Gen
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 the two handmaids.
Gen
33:2 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her
children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Gen
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.
Gen
33:4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed
him, and they wept.
Gen
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."
Gen
33:6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they
bowed themselves.
Gen
33:7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves.
After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Gen
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."
Gen
33:9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you
have be yours."
Gen
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.
Gen
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.
Gen
33:12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I
will go before you."
Gen
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.
Gen
33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will
lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are
before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to
my lord to Seir."
Gen
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."
Gen
33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
Gen
33:17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made
shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called
Succoth.
Gen
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.
Gen
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.
Gen
33:20 He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.