1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and, behold, Esau was coming, and with
him four hundred men. He divided the
children between Leah, Rachel, and the
two servants.
2 He put the servants and their children
in front, Leah and her children after, and
Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
3 He himself passed over in front of
them, and bowed himself to the ground
seven times, until he came near to his
brother.
4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him,
fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the
women and the children; and said, “Who
are these with you?”
He said, “The children whom God has
graciously given your servant.”
6 Then the servants came near with their
children, and they bowed themselves.
7 Leah also and her children came near,
and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph
came near with Rachel, and they bowed
themselves.
8 Esau said, “What do you mean by all
this company which I met?”
Jacob said, “To find favor in the sight of
my lord.”
9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother;
let that which you have be yours.”
10 Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now
found favor in your sight, then receive my
present at my hand, because I have seen
your face, as one sees the face of God, and
you were pleased with me.
11 Please take the gift that I brought to
you, because God has dealt graciously with
me, and because I have enough.” He urged
him, and he took it.
12 Esau said, “Let’s take our journey, and
let’s go, and I will go before you.”
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 people 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.
19 He bought the parcel of ground where
he had spread his tent, at the hand of the
children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for
one hundred pieces of money.
20 He erected an altar there, and called it
El Elohe Israel.
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