16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.


In Context

13 Jacob said to him, |My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.|

15 Esau said, |Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.| He said, |Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.|

16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

Genesis 33:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

33:16So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

33:16So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

33:16So Esau returned, that day, the way that he came, to Seir.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

33:16So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

33:16And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

33:16So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

33:16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

33:16And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

33:16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.