{"book":"Genesis","slug":"genesis","ch":33,"genre":"prose","sub":"The First Book of Moses","prev":"genesis/32","next":"genesis/34","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"Now 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.","f":[],"h":"Jacob Meets Esau","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"But [Jacob] himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.","f":[]},{"v":4,"t":"Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":5,"t":"When 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.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked,“ Who are these with you?”"},{"style":"reg","t":"[Jacob] answered,“ [These are] the children God has graciously given your servant.”"}],"style":"reg"},{"v":6,"t":"Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.","f":[]},{"v":7,"t":"Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"“ What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau.“ To find favor in your sight, my lord,” [Jacob] answered.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"“ What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau."},{"style":"reg","t":"“ To find favor in your sight, my lord,” [Jacob] answered."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"“ I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied.“ Keep what belongs to you.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":10,"t":"But 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.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"Please 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.","f":["Or blessing or treaty of peace"]},{"v":12,"t":"Then Esau said,“ Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":13,"t":"But 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.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":14,"t":"Please 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.”","f":[]},{"v":15,"t":"“ 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.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"“ Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said."},{"style":"reg","t":"But [Jacob] replied,“ Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”"}],"style":"reg"},{"v":16,"t":"So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":17,"t":"but 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.","f":["Succoth means booths or shelters or tabernacles; twice in this verse."]},{"v":18,"t":"After 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.","f":["That is, northwest Mesopotamia"],"h":"Jacob Settles in Shechem","style":"reg"},{"v":19,"t":"And 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.","f":["Hebrew a hundred kesitahs; the value or weight of the kesitah is no longer known"]},{"v":20,"t":"There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.","f":["El-Elohe-Israel means God is the God of Israel or mighty is the God of Israel."]}]}