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Genesis 33:1-13 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

1. And Ya‛aqoḇ lifted his eyes and looked and saw Ěsaw coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children among Lĕ’ah, and Raḥĕl, and the two female servants.

2. And he put the female servants and their children in front, and Lĕ’ah and her children behind, and Raḥĕl and Yosĕph last.

3. And he himself passed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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

5. And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?” And he said, “The children with whom Elohim has favoured your servant.”

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

7. And Lĕ’ah also came near with her children, and they bowed themselves. And Yosĕph and Raḥĕl came near, and they bowed themselves.

8. Then Ěsaw said, “What do you mean by all this company which I met?” And he said, “To find favour in the eyes of my master.”

9. But Ěsaw said, “I have enough, my brother, let what you have remain yours.”

10. And Ya‛aqoḇ said, “No, please, if I have now found favour in your eyes, then receive my present from my hand, because I have seen your face like seeing the face of Elohim, and you were pleased with me.

11. “Please, take my blessing that is brought to you, because Elohim has favoured me, and because I have all I need.” And he urged him, and he took it.

12. And he said, “Let us depart and go, and let me go before you.”

13. But he said to him, “My master knows that the children are weak, and the flocks and herds which are nursing are with me. And if the men should drive them hard one day, all the flocks shall die.

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