Genesis Chapter 33
Jacob Meets Esau
1 Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming with his 400 men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two maids. 2 He put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children next, Rachel and Joseph last. 3 He went on ahead of them and bowed to the ground seven times as he got closer to his brother. 4 Then Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged him, and kissed him. They cried together. 5 Esau looked up and saw the women and children, “Who are these?”
“Children God has graciously given me.”
Gen 33:1-5
6 The maids came with their children and bowed. 7 Leah came up with her children and bowed. Last, Joseph and Rachel came and bowed.
8 Esau asked, “What do you mean by all this?”
Jacob said, “To please you.”
9 But Esau said, “I have plenty, brother. Keep what you have.”
10 “No, if I’m pleasing to you, accept my present; I look up to you like someone looks up to God, and you’ve received me graciously. 11 Take the gift I’ve brought you; God has been generous to me; I have plenty.”
He kept urging him, so he took it.
12 Esau said, “Let’s travel on. I’ll go ahead of you.”
13 But he told him,
“You know the children are young, and I’m concerned about the flocks and herds that are nursing. If they’re driven hard for a day, they’ll die. 14 Go on ahead. I’ll go at the pace of the livestock and children till I come to you in Seir.”
15 “Let me leave some of my people.”
“What’s the need? Be gracious to me on this.”
16 Esau went back that day to Seir. 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built a house, and made “corrals” for his livestock; so the name of the place became Succoth.
18 Jacob went safely to Shechem in Canaan and camped by the city. 19 The piece of land where he’d pitched his tent, he bought from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for 100 pieces of silver. 20 He built an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel [El the God of Israel].
Gen 33:6-20