Genesis 33 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Jacob Meets Esau

Gen 33:1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

Gen 33:2

Gen 33:2And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

Gen 33:3

Gen 33:3And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Gen 33:4

Gen 33:4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.

Gen 33:5

Gen 33:5And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.

Gen 33:6

Gen 33:6Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

Gen 33:7

Gen 33:7And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

Gen 33:8

Gen 33:8And he said, What meanest thou by all this company which I met? And he said, To find favor in the sight of my lord.

Gen 33:9

Gen 33:9And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let that which thou hast be thine.

Gen 33:10

Gen 33:10And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favor in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

Gen 33:11

Gen 33:11Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

Gen 33:12

Gen 33:12And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

Gen 33:13

Gen 33:13And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young: and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

Gen 33:14

Gen 33:14Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

Gen 33:15

Gen 33:15And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find favor in the sight of my lord.

Gen 33:16

Gen 33:16So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

Gen 33:17

Gen 33:17And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

Jacob Settles in Shechem

Gen 33:18

Gen 33:18And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city.

Gen 33:19

Gen 33:19And he bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money.

Gen 33:20

Gen 33:20And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Genesis 33 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

Jacob Meets Esau

Jacob Settles in Shechem

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