Verse 6
Genesis 33:6
Bible in Basic English
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Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/תִּגַּ֧שְׁןָ הַ/שְּׁפָח֛וֹת הֵ֥נָּה וְ/יַלְדֵי/הֶ֖ן וַ/תִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶֽיןָ
English Translation
And the maidservants approached, they and their children, and they bowed down.
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Chapter 33 Context
1
Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of...
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He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Jo...
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And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near...
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Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them...
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Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? An...
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Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.
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And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.
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And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering...
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But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.
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And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have...
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Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God (Elohim) has been very good to me and I have enough...
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And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.
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But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flo...
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Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle a...
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And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lo...
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So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.
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17
And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for...
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So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his t...
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19
And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field...
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And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God (Elohim) of Israel.
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