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33:1 Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids. 33:2 He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. 33:3 He himself went on ahead of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his brother. 33:4 But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 33:5 When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." 33:6 Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down; 33:7 Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and finally Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down. 33:8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company that I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor with my lord." 33:9 But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself." 33:10 Jacob said, "No, please; if I find favor with you, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God-- since you have received me with such favor. 33:11 Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want." So he urged him, and he took it. 33:12 Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go alongside you." 33:13 But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die. 33:14 Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir." 33:15 So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "Why should my lord be so kind to me?" 33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 33:17 But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the place is called Succoth. 33:18 Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city. 33:19 And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for one hundred pieces of money the plot of land on which he had pitched his tent. 33:20 There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.