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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 33 Catholic Public Domain Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/33.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/33-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CPDV</a> > Genesis 33</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/32.htm" title="Genesis 32">◄</a> Genesis 33 <a href="../genesis/34.htm" title="Genesis 34">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/33-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jacob Meets Esau<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau arriving, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the sons of Leah and Rachel, and of both the handmaids. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he placed the two handmaids and their children at the beginning. Truly, Leah and her sons were in the second place. Then Rachel and Joseph were last. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And advancing, he reverenced prostrate on the ground seven times, until his brother approached.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And so Esau ran to meet his brother, and he embraced him. And drawing him by his neck and kissing him, he wept. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their little ones, and he said: “What do these want for themselves?” and “Are they related to you?” He responded, “These are the little ones that God has given as a gift to me, your servant.” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Then the handmaids and their sons approached and bowed down. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Likewise Leah, with her sons, came near. And when they had reverenced similarly, last of all, Joseph and Rachel reverenced. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Esau said, “What are these companies that I have been meeting?” He responded, “So may I find favor before my lord.” <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But he said, “I have plenty, my brother; let these be for yourself.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Jacob said: “I beg you, let it not be so. But if I have found favor in your eyes, receive a small present from my hands. For I have looked upon your face as I would look upon the countenance of God. Be gracious to me, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and take the blessing which I have brought to you, and which God, who bestows all things, has given as a gift to me.” Accepting it reluctantly, at the insistence of his brother,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>he said, “Let us go on together, and I will accompany you on your journey.” <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Jacob said: “My lord, you know that I have with me tender little ones, and sheep, and cows with young. If I cause these to labor too much in walking, all the flocks will die in one day. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>May it please my lord to go before his servant. And I will follow gradually in his steps, as much as I see my little ones to be able, until I arrive to my lord in Seir.”<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Esau responded, “I beg you, that at least some of the people who are with me may remain to accompany you on the way.” But he said, “There is no need. I have need of one thing only: to find favor in your sight, my lord.” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And so Esau returned that day, by the way that he had arrived, to Seir. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Jacob went to Succoth, where, having built a house and pitched tents, he called the name of that place Succoth, that is, ‘Tents.’<p> <A name="19"></a><p class="hdg">Jacob Settles in Shechem<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he crossed over to Salem, a city of the Shechemites, which is in the land of Canaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria. And he lived near the town. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And he bought the part of the field in which he had pitched his tents from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred lambs. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/33-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And erecting an altar there, he invoked upon it the most strong God of Israel.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>