Genesis 33
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Genesis 33:12-20

12Then Esau said, “Let’s move on, and I’ll go ahead of you.”

13Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing flocks and herds. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.

14Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

15Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.” But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me, my lord.”

16That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

17but Jacob went to Succoth. He built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.

18After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.

19He purchased a section of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.

20And he set up an altar there and called it God, the God of Israel.

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