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Then Jacob , lifting up his eyes , saw Esau coming with his four hundred men . So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.
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He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
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And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother .
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Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss : and the two of them were overcome with weeping.
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Then Esau, lifting up his eyes , saw the women and the children, and said , Who are these with you? And he said , The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant .
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Then the servants and their children came near , and went down on their faces.
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And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel , and they did the same.
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And he said , What were all those herds which I saw on the way ? And Jacob said , They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord 's eyes .
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But Esau said , I have enough ; keep what is yours, my brother , for yourself.
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And Jacob said , Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes , take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God , and you have been pleased with me.
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Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough : so at his strong request, he took it.
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And he said , Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.
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But Jacob said , My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds : one day 's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock .
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Do you, my lord , go on before your servant ; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir .
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And Esau said , Then keep some of my men with you. And he said , What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?
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So Esau , turning back that day , went on his way to Seir .
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And Jacob went on to Succoth , where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle : for this reason the place was named Succoth .
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So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan , and put up his tents near the town .
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And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor , the builder of Shechem , the field in which he had put up his tents .
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And there he put up an altar , naming it El, the God of Israel.