Genesis 33:1

World English Bible (2000)

Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

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  • Gen 32:6-7 : 6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him." 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
  • Gen 32:16 : 16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."
  • Gen 27:41-42 : 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob." 42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

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  • Gen 32:6-8
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    6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

    7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

    8 and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."

  • Gen 33:2-8
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    2 He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

    3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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

    5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

    6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

    7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

    8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • Gen 31:4-5
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    4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

    5 and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.

  • Gen 32:3-4
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    3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

    4 He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.

  • Gen 36:6
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    6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

  • Gen 32:19-20
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    19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

    20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

  • Gen 31:33
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    33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 29:6
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    6 He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."

  • Gen 32:17
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    17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

  • Gen 33:15
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    15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."