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The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;

Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and finally Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.

But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.

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

These are the children of Anah: Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he had made him a long robe with sleeves.

And their father Jacob said to them, "I am the one you have bereaved of children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and now you would take Benjamin. All this has happened to me!"

may God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, so that he may send back your other brother and Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

And we said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young brother, the child of his old age. His brother is dead; he alone is left of his mother's children, and his father loves him.'

You shall settle in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, as well as your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

and the children of Reuben: Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.

The children of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

The children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan); and the children of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.

The children of Issachar: Tola, Puvah, Jashub, and Shimron.

The children of Zebulun: Sered, Elon, and Jahleel