3. Then Jacob went over [the stream] before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
4. But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. [Luke 15:20.]
5. [Esau] looked up and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And [Jacob] replied, They are the children whom God has graciously given your servant.
6. Then the maids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
7. And Leah also with her children came near, and they bowed themselves. After them Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed themselves.
8. Esau said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, These are that I might find favor in the sight of my lord.
9. And Esau said, I have plenty, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.
10. But Jacob replied, No, I beg of you, if now I have found favor in your sight, receive my gift that I am presenting; for truly to see your face is to me as if I had seen the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
11. Accept, I beg of you, my blessing and gift that I have brought to you; for God has dealt graciously with me and I have everything. And he kept urging him and he accepted it.
12. Then [Esau] said, Let us get started on our journey, and I will go before you.