Genesis 32:29   (Read all of Genesis 32)

Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" Then he blessed him there.

Genesis 32:30   (Read all of Genesis 32)

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared."

Genesis 32:31   (Read all of Genesis 32)

The sun rose above him as he passed Peniel, and he was limping because of his hip.

Genesis 32:32   (Read all of Genesis 32)

Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the tendon attached to the socket of the hip, because the socket of Jacob's hip was touched near the tendon.

Genesis 33:1   (Read all of Genesis 33)

Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.

Genesis 33:2   (Read all of Genesis 33)

He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.

Genesis 33:3   (Read all of Genesis 33)

He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Genesis 33:5   (Read all of Genesis 33)

Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. "Who are these with you?" he asked. Jacob answered, "They are the children God has graciously given your servant."

Genesis 33:6   (Read all of Genesis 33)

Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down.

Genesis 33:8   (Read all of Genesis 33)

Esau asked, "What's the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?" "To find favor in your eyes, my lord," he said.

Genesis 33:9   (Read all of Genesis 33)

But Esau said, "I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself."

Genesis 33:10   (Read all of Genesis 33)

"No, please!" said Jacob. "If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.

Genesis 33:12   (Read all of Genesis 33)

Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way; I'll accompany you."

Genesis 33:13   (Read all of Genesis 33)

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 33:14   (Read all of Genesis 33)

So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir."

Genesis 33:15   (Read all of Genesis 33)

Esau said, "Then let me leave some of my men with you." "But why do that?" Jacob asked. "Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."

Genesis 33:16   (Read all of Genesis 33)

So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.

Genesis 33:17   (Read all of Genesis 33)

Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth.

Genesis 33:18   (Read all of Genesis 33)

After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.

Genesis 33:19   (Read all of Genesis 33)

For a hundred pieces of silver, he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.

Genesis 33:20   (Read all of Genesis 33)

There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.

Genesis 34:2   (Read all of Genesis 34)

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of that area, saw her, he took her and raped her.

Genesis 34:3   (Read all of Genesis 34)

His heart was drawn to Dinah daughter of Jacob; he loved the young woman and spoke tenderly to her.

Genesis 34:4   (Read all of Genesis 34)

And Shechem said to his father Hamor, "Get me this girl as my wife."