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Please rescue me from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau, for I fear him, lest he come and attack mother and children alike.

That night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau was coming and four hundred men were with him. And he divided the children among Leah and among Rachel, and among the two of his female servants.

And he put the female slaves and their children first, then Leah and her children next, then Rachel with Joseph last.

Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who are these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Then the female servants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed down.

Then Leah and her children drew near and bowed down, and afterward Joseph and Rachel drew near and they bowed down.

But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and the flocks and the cattle which are nursing are a concern to me. Now if they drove them hard for a day all the flocks would die.

Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the pace of the children until I come to my lord in Seir."

Then Judah said to his father Israel, "Send the boy with me, and let us arise and go, so that we will live and not die—you, we, and our children.

You shall settle in the land of Goshen so that you will be near me, you and your children and your grandchildren, and your flocks and your herds and all that you have.

And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children.

And your children whom you father after them shall be yours. By the name of their brothers they shall be called, with respect to their inheritance.

with all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and the household of his father. They left only their little children and their flocks and their herds in the land of Goshen.

And Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. Moreover, the children of Makir, son of Manasseh, were born on the knees of Joseph.

"And you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever.

And when your children say to you, ‘What is this religious custom for you?'

You will not bow down to them, and you will not serve them, because I am Yahweh your God, a jealous God, punishing the guilt of the parents on the children on the third and on the fourth generations of those hating me,

If his master gives him a wife and she bears for him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and the slave will go out single.

But if the slave explicitly says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,"