Genesis 33:1-11 ▼

1 And Jacob lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divides the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants;

2 and he sets the maidservants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

3 And he himself passed over before them, and bows himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing near to his brother,

4 and Esau runs to meet him, and embraces him, and falls on his neck, and kisses him, and they weep;

5 and he lifts up his eyes, and sees the women and the children, and says, “What [are] these to you?” And he says, “The children with whom God has favored your servant.”

6 And the maidservants draw near, they and their children, and bow themselves;

7 and Leah also draws near, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterward Joseph has drawn near with Rachel, and they bow themselves.

8 And he says, “What to you [is] all this camp which I have met?” And he says, “To find grace in the eyes of my lord.”

9 And Esau says, “I have abundance, my brother, that which you have, let it be for yourself.”

10 And Jacob says, “No, please, now if I have found grace in your eyes, then you have received my present from my hand, because that I have seen your face, as the seeing of the face of God, and you are pleased with me;

11 please receive my blessing which is brought to you, because God has favored me, and because I have all [things]”; and he presses on him, and he receives [it],