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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Please accept my gift that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need.” So Jacob pressed him until he accepted. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.” |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.” |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.” |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir, |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17but Jacob went on to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And the plot of ground where he pitched his tent, he purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel. |
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