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Genesis 33 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - And Jacob [fn]lifted up his eyes, and beheld, and lo! Esau his brother coming, and four hundred men with him; and Jacob divided the children to Lea and to Rachel, and the two handmaidens.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Lea and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:3 - But he advanced himself before them, and did reverence to the ground seven times, until he drew near to his brother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - And Esau ran on to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they both wept.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - And Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, and said, What are these to thee? And he said, The children with which God has mercifully blessed thy servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:6 - And the maid-servants and their children drew near and did reverence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - And Lea and her children drew near and did reverence; and after this drew near Rachel and Joseph, and did reverence.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:8 - And he said, What are these things to thee, all these companies that I have met? And he said, That thy servant might find grace in thy sight, my lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:9 - And Esau said, I have much, my brother; keep thine own.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:10 - And Jacob said, If I have found grace in thy sight, receive the gifts through my hands; therefore have I seen thy face, as if any one should see the face of God, and thou shalt be well-pleased with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:11 - Receive my blessings, which I have brought thee, because God has had mercy on me, and I have all things; and he constrained him, and he took them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:12 - And he said, Let us depart, and proceed right onward.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - And he said to him, My lord knows, that the children are very tender, and the flocks and the herds with me are with young; if then I shall drive them hard one day, all the cattle will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - Let my lord go on before his servant, and I shall have strength on the road according to the ease of the journey before me, and according to the [fn]strength of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:15 - And Esau said, I will leave with thee some of the people who are with me. And he said, Why so? it is enough that I have found favour before thee, my lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:16 - And Esau returned on that day on his journey to Seir.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:17 - And Jacob departs to his tents; and he made for himself there habitations, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he called the name of that place, Booths.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - And Jacob came to Salem, a city of Secima, which is in the land of Chanaan, when he departed out of Mesopotamia of Syria, and [fn]took up a position in front of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:19 - And he bought the portion of the field, where he pitched his tent, of Emmor the father of Sychem, for a hundred lambs.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:20 - And he set up there an altar, and called on the God of Israel.
BES Footnotes
Gr. looked up with.
Gr. foot.
Or, pitched his tent. Alex. παρενέβαλε, for which probably παρενέλαβε is a mere mistake. So Bos and P. Junius thought.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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