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And Jacob lifting up his eyes , saw Esau coming , and with him four hundred men : and he divided the children of Lia, and of Rachel , and of the two handmaids :
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And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last .
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And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times until his brother came near .
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Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck , and kissing him, wept .
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And lifting up his eyes , he saw the women and their children, and said : What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me thy servant .
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Then the handmaids and their children came near , and bowed themselves.
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Lia also with her children came near , and bowed down in like manner, and last of all Joseph and Rachel bowed down .
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And Esau said : What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favor before my lord .
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But he said : I have plenty, my brother , keep what is thine for thyself.
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And Jacob said : Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found favor in thy eyes , receive a little present at my hands : for I have seen thy face , as if I should have seen the countenance of God : be gracious to me,
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And take the blessing, which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things . He took it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him,
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And said : Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey .
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And Jacob said : My lord , thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep , and kine with young : which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die .
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May it please my lord to go before his servant : and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir .
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Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way . And he said : There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favor, my lord , in thy sight .
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So Esau returned , that day , the way that he came, to Seir .
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And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house , and pitched tents , he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, tents .
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And he passed over to Salem , a city of the Sichemites , which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town :
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And he bought that part of the field , in which he pitched his tents , of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem for a hundred lambs.
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And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.