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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 33, Verse 12

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Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took [it].
King James Version
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
American Standard Version
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
New English Translation
Then Esau said,“Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”
World English Bible
Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
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And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
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Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
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And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
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So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
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And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18
And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
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And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
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And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel.
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And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
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And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.