\\INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 33\\
In this chapter we find Esau meeting Jacob in a friendly manner, contrary to his fears and expectation, having set his family in order in case of the worst, \\#Ge 33:1-4\\; putting questions to Jacob concerning the women and children with him, who make their obeisance to him as Jacob had done before, \\#Ge 33:5-7\\; and concerning the drove he met, which was a present to him, and which he refused at first to take, but at the urgency of Jacob accepted of it, \\#Ge 33:8-11\\; proposing to travel with him, unto which Jacob desired to be excused, he, with the women, children, and flocks, not being able to keep pace with him, \\#Ge 33:12-14\\, and to leave some of his men with him to guard him, which Jacob judged unnecessary, upon which they parted friendly, \\#Ge 33:15,16\\; and the chapter is concluded with an account of Jacob's journey, first to Succoth, then to Shalem, where he pitched his tent, bought a field and built an altar, \\#Ge 33:17-20\\.
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