1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked,
and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred
men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto
Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
2And he put the handmaids and their children
foremost, and Leah and her children after, and
Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
3And he passed over before them, and bowed
himself to the ground seven times, until he came
near to his brother.
4And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him,
and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
5And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women
and the children; and said, Who are those
with thee? And he said, The children which God hath
graciously given thy servant.
6Then the handmaidens came near, they and
their children, and they bowed themselves.
7And Leah also with her children came near,
and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and
Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
8And he said, What meanest thou
by all this drove which I met? And he said, These
are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
9And Esau said, I have enough, my brother;
keep that thou hast unto thyself.
10And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I
have found grace in thy sight, then receive my
present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy
face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou
wast pleased with me.
11Take, I pray thee, my blessing 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.
12And he said, Let us take our journey, and
let us go, and I will go before thee.
13And 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.
14Let 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.
15And 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.
16So Esau returned that day on his way unto
Seir.
17And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built
him an house, and made booths for his cattle:
therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18And 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.
19And 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.
20And he erected there an altar, and called
it Elelohe-Israel.