And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men.
And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
2
And he
put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and
Joseph hindermost.
3
And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven
times, until he came near to his brother.
4
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell
on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
5
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and
the children; and said, Who
are
those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath
graciously given thy servant.
6
Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they
bowed themselves.
7
And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after
came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
8
And he said, What
meanest
thou by
all this drove which I met? And he said,
These are
to find grace in the sight of my lord.
9
And Esau
said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
10
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray
thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I
have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
11
Take,
I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and
because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took
it.
12
And he said, Let us take our journey,
and let us go, and I will go before thee.
13
And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children
are
tender, and the flocks and herds with young
are
with me: and if men should overdrive them
one day, all the flock will die.
14
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will
lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until
I come unto my lord unto Seir.
15
And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee
some
of the folk that
are
with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
16
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built
him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which
is
in the land of Canaan, when he came
from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
19
And he bought a parcel of a field, where
he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred
pieces of money.
20
And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
CHAPTER 34
And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the
land.
2
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took
her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
3
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and
he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
4
And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor,
saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
5
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace until they were come.
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