Genesis 33

Revised Geneva Translation

33 And as Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maids.

² And he put the maids and their children first, then Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.

³ So, he went before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.

⁴ And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept.

⁵ And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” And he answered, “The children whom God, by His grace, has given your servant.”

⁶ Then the maids came near, they and their children, and bowed themselves.

⁷ Also Leah, with her children, came near and bowed down. And after that, Joseph and Rachel drew near and did reverence.

⁸ Then he said, “What do you mean by all these flocks which I met?” Who answered, “I have sent them so that I may find favor in the sight of my lord.”

⁹ And Esau said, “I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.”

¹⁰ But Jacob answered, “No, please, if I have found grace now in your sight, then receive my present from my hand. For I have seen your face, as though I had seen the face of God, because you have accepted me.

¹¹ “Please take my blessing that is brought to you. For God has had mercy on me; and therefore, I have all things.” So, he compelled him and he took it.

¹² And he said, “Let us take our journey and go; and I will go before you.”

¹³ Then he answered him, “My lord knows that the children are frail and the ewes and cows are with young under my hand. And if they should overdrive them one day, all the flock would die.

¹⁴ “Let now my lord go before his servant; and I will drive softly, according to the pace of the cattle which are before me, and as the children are able to endure, until I come to my lord, to Seir.”

¹⁵ Then Esau said, “Then I will leave some of my folk with you.” And he answered, “What is the need? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord.”

¹⁶ So Esau returned and went his way that same day, to Seir.

¹⁷ And Jacob went forward toward Succoth, and built a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore, he called the name of the place, Succoth.

¹⁸ Afterward, Jacob came safely to , a city, which is in the land of Canaan (when he came from Padan Aram and pitched before the city).

¹⁹ And there he bought a parcel of ground from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money, where he pitched his tent.

²⁰ And he set up an altar there, and called it, “The Mighty God of Israel”.