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Ge 33:12-20. THE PARTING.
12. And he said, Let us take our journey--Esau proposed to accompany Jacob and his family through the country, both as a mark of friendship and as an escort to guard them. But the proposal was prudently declined. Jacob did not need any worldly state or equipage. Notwithstanding the present cordiality, the brothers were so different in spirit, character, and habits--the one so much a man of the world, and the other a man of God, that there was great risk of something occurring to disturb the harmony. Jacob having alleged a very reasonable excuse for the tardiness of his movements, the brothers parted in peace.
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Outline
1 The kindness of Jacob and Esau at their meeting
17 Jacob comes to Succoth
18 At Shalem Jacob buys a field
20 And builds an altar called El-elohe-Israel
Ancient Customs
Gifts
Bowing Seven Times
Embracing and Kissing
booths for his cattle
pitched his tent before the city
buying a field
hundred pieces of money
erected there an altar
Ancient Topics
Elelohe-Israel
Ancient People
Jacob, Esau, Leah, Rachael, Joseph
children of Hamor
Shechem's father
Geography
Seir
Succoth
Shalem
Shalem
The Land of Canaan
Padanaram
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Abraham the First Hebrew
Isaac, Son of Promise
Jacob
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Joseph
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