 1 Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, Esau came, and 400 men with him, and he divided the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two handmaids. 2 He put the slave women and their children first, Leah and her children afterward, and Rachel and Joseph last. 3 He passed over in front of them, and bowed to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell upon his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 5 He lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the boys and said, Who are these with you? He said, The boys with whom God has favored your servant. 6 Then the slave women came near, they and their boys, and bowed. 7 Leah also and her children, came near and bowed. Afterward Joseph and Rachel came near and bowed. 8 He asked, Whose is all this camp that I met? And he said, To find grace in the sight of my lord. 9 Esau said, I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself. 10 Jacob said, No, please, if now I have found grace in your sight, then receive my present. For therefore I have seen your face as though I had seen the face of God and you were pleased with me. 11 Please take my blessing that is brought to you because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have enough. So he urged him and he accepted. 12 He said, Let us take our journey and go and I will go before you. 13 He said to him, my lord knows that the boys are tender and the flocks and herds with me are suckling. If the men should overdrive them one day all the flock will die. 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant and I will lead on softly according as the flocks that go before me and the boys are able to endure until I come to my lord to Seir. 15 Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the people with me. He said, Why this? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord. 16 Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth and built a house, and made booths for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. 18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram. And he pitched his tent in front of the city. 19 He bought a piece of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for 100 pieces of silver. 20 He erected there an altar, and called it El, the God of Israel.
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