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And Jacob lifted ··up his eyes , and saw , and behold, Esau came , and with him four hundred men ◦. And he halved the children over to Leah, and over to Rachel , and over to the two handmaids .
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And he set the handmaids and their children first , and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind.
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And he◦ himself passed ··on before them, and bowed · himself ·down to▫ the earth seven times◦, until he approached, even··to his brother .
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And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck , and kissed him; and they wept .
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And he lifted ··up his eyes , and saw the women and the children; and said , Who are these to thee? And he said , The children with whom God has graced thy servant .
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And the handmaids approached, they◦ and their children, and they bowed · themselves ·down.
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And Leah also and her children approached, and they bowed · themselves ·down; and afterwards Joseph and Rachel approached, and bowed · themselves ·down.
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And he said , Who to thee are all these camps whom I encounter? And he said , To find grace in the eyes of my lord .
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And Esau said , I have◦ much , my brother ; be to thee what is to thee.
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And Jacob said , No, I pray◦, if, I pray◦, I have found grace in thine eyes , then take my gift◦ from my hand ; for because that I have seen thy faces as seeing the faces of God , and thou hast been··well··pleased with me.
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Take, I pray◦, my blessing that is brought to thee; because◦ God has been··gracious··to me, and because◦ I have◦ all. And he urged him, and he took it.
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And he said , Let us journey and go , and I will go in··front··of thee.
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And he said to▵ him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flock and the herd with me are sucklings◦, and if they push· them ·on in one day , then all the flock will··die .
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Let my lord , I pray◦, cross··over before his servant , and I◦ will proceed* slowly as··to the foot steps of the work ▵* that is before me, and to the foot steps of the children, until I come to▵ my lord to▫ Seir .
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And Esau said , Let me now◦ place◦ with thee some from the people who are with◦ me. And he said , Why is this? Let me find grace in the eyes of my lord .
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And Esau returned in that◦ day to his way , to▫ Seir .
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And Jacob journeyed to▫ Succoth , and built for himself a house , and made shelters for his livestock ; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth .
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And Jacob came to Salem*, a city of Shechem , which is in the land of Canaan , in his coming from Paddan-aram , and encamped to the faces of the city .
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And he bought the part of the field , where▵ he had stretched··out his tent , from the hand of the sons of Hamor , Shechem ’s father , for a hundred kesitah.
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And he set··up there an altar , and he called it El-Elohe-Israel.