KJV King James Version
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
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Genesis 33:16
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
WEB World English Bible
So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
ASV American Standard Version
So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir;
Surrounding context — Genesis 33
13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the flocks and herds with young [are] with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
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 So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
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 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.
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.
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