Some Favorite Movie Scenes

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Also, no one has made this scene into a movie yet (I don't think) but its still pretty exciting:

Genesis 33: (my insertions in blue)

Just some quick background info: Jacob ran away from his parents house for fear of Esau's wrath. He ended up at his uncle Laban who was a trickster, and realized he'd better get outta there too. So one night he escapes with all his wives and children. While they were journeying, it becomes known to him that Esau is headed straight towards him!

the story unfolds...

1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. (Yikes!!) And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. (the appeasement) 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept. (Ah! the gift and the appeasement worked. Esau is no longer angry.) 5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said: 'Who are these with thee?' ("Why Jacob, you've been busy!") And he said: 'The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.' (Thank God) 6 Then the handmaids came near, they and their children, and they bowed down. 7 And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed down; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed down. (more appeasement) 8 And he said: 'What meanest thou by all this camp which I met?' (Esau: and why did you send me all those gifts?") And he said: 'To find favour in the sight of my lord.' 9 And Esau said: 'I have enough; my brother, let that which thou hast be thine.' (I've got plenty!) 10 And Jacob said: 'Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found favour in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand; forasmuch as I have seen thy face, as one seeth the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.' And he urged him, and he took it. ("I also have plenty") 12 And he said: 'Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.' (Esau: so lets travel together and talk) 13 And he said unto him: 'My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant; and I will journey on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.' (Jacob: "Oh no no no! We're a slow moving bunch what with the children and the cattle. Better you should go without us" Because who would want to walk with a former enemy? They're liable to rekindle an old dispute!) 15 And Esau said: 'Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me.'(Esau wants to leave some of his men with Jacob; I wouldn't go for that either.) And he said: 'What needeth it? let me find favour 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 a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.