Genesis — Chapter 33
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Verse 3
Efau therefore running to meet his brother , embraced him : and clafping him faft about the necke , and kiffing him wept. 5. And cafling vp his eyes he faw the women and their lide ones , and faid : What meane thefe? And doe they perteyne to thee? He anfwered : They are the litle ones which God hath giuento me thy feruant. 6. And the handmaids and their childrencomming necr bowed themfelues, 7- Lia alfo with her children cameneer : and whentheyhad adored inlike manner » laft lofeph and Rachel adored. 8, And Efau faid : What are thetroups that I did mect? He anfwered : ThatI might find grace before my Lord,
Verse 9
AndJacob faid : Doe not fo, I befeech thee, but if T haue found grace in thine eyes, take a litle prefent at my hands : for fo hauel feen thy face as if I fhould haue feen (4) the countenance of God: be gracious to me, 11. and take the bleffing which I haue brought thee, and which God hath giuen me , who giueth al things. Scarce at kis brothers great inftance taking it, 12, he faid: Let vs march on together , and J wil accompanie thee in thy lourney. 13, And lacob faid ~My Lord thou knoweft that I haue with mc litle ones, and Ofee nh theep,! Iacob, GENESIS. 191 fheep, and kine with yong:which if caufe to ouerlabour themfelues in going, in one day al the flocks wil die, 14.1t may pleafe my Lord to goe before his feruant: and J wil follow foftly after him, as I fhal fee my litle ones to be able,vntil [cometo my Lord in Seir.t5.Efauanfwered: I befeechthee that of my people at the leaft wife whichis with me, there may remaine fome to accompanie thee in the way. It is not need- ful, faid he, this only I haue need of, that may find grace (my Lord) inthy fight. 16, Efau therefore returned thatday the fame way that hecame, into Seir.17, And Iacob commeth into Socoth ; where hauing built a houfe, and pitched his tents, he called the name of that place Socoth, that is , Tabernacles. 18. andhe paffed into Salema citie of the Sichimites , which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mefopotamia oft Siria: and he dwelt betide the towne. 19, And he bought that part ofthe field , wherin he had picched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for an hundred lambs,
Verse 10
Iacob seeing Gods hand in this change of his brothers mind, not of flatterie, but sincerely acknowledged his benignitie, as Gods countenance towards him.
Verse 20
Fer rauishing Dina the Sichimites (being firjt circumcifed) ave flaine by Simeon G Leut her brothers, 27. The reft of ‘avovs fonnes fposle the cstse. 30. lacob bla~ meth them, fearing harme may come by this fact, mM Nv Dinathedaughter of Lia went forth to fee the women ofthatcounrrie. 2. Whom when Sichem had ’ feen, the fonne of Hemor the Heuite , the Prince of that land, he was inloue with her: and he tooke her away, and lay with her , by force rauifhing the virgin,