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## Genesis 33:18,20 in Context (Verses 15–20 KJV)
 
 [15 ](/kjv/genesis/33/15) And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee *some* of the folk that *are* with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.**
 
 [16 ](/kjv/genesis/33/16) ¶ So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/genesis/33/17) And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/genesis/33/18) ¶ And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which *is* in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/genesis/33/19) And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money.**
 
 [20 ](/kjv/genesis/33/20) And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.*
 
[Genesis 32](/kjv/genesis/32) [Genesis 34](/kjv/genesis/34)

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