33:1 Then Jacob raised his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children ①among Leah and Rachel, and the two slave women.
▷ ①Or to
33:2 He put the slave women and their children ①in front, and Leah and her children ②next, and Rachel and Joseph ③last.
▷ ①Lit first ②Lit behind ③Lit behind
33:3 But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
33:4 Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
33:5 He raised his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “ ①Who are these with you?” So he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”
▷ ①Or What relation are these to you?
33:6 Then the slave women came forward ①with their children, and they bowed down.
▷ ①Lit they and
33:7 And Leah likewise came forward with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came forward with Rachel, and they bowed down.
33:8 And he said, “What do you mean by all this company which I have met?” And he said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”
33:9 But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own.”
33:10 Jacob said, “No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then accept my gift from my hand, ①for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
▷ ①Lit for therefore I have seen your face like seeing God’s face
33:11 Please accept my ①gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have ②plenty.” So he urged him, and he accepted it.
▷ ①Lit blessing ②Lit all
33:12 Then ①Esau said, “Let’s journey on and go, and I will go ahead of you.”
▷ ①Lit he
33:13 But he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds that are nursing are ①a matter of concern to me. And if they are driven hard just one day, all the flocks will die.
▷ ①Lit upon me
33:14 Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will proceed at my leisure, at the pace of the cattle that are ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
33:15 Then Esau said, “Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “ ①What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
▷ ①Lit Why this?
33:16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
33:17 But Jacob journeyed to ①Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.
▷ ①I.e., booths
33:18 Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and camped before the city.
33:19 He bought the plot of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred ①pieces of money.
▷ ①Heb qesitah
33:20 Then he erected there an altar and called it ①El-Elohe-Israel.
▷ ①I.e., God, the God of Israel