Genesis 33:1-11 ▼

1 Now Jacob looked up and saw that Esau approaching, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two female servants.

2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.

3 He himself went on ahead of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he approached his brother.

4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. And they wept.

5 And he looked up 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.|

6 Then the female servants came forward with their children, and they bowed themselves.

7 Leah also and her children came forward, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came forward with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

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.|

9 Esau said, |I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.|

10 Jacob said, |No, please, if I have now found favor in our sight, then accept my present from my hand, because I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of God, since you have accepted me.

11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has been gracious to me, and because I have enough. |Thus he urged him, and he took it.