And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two maid-servants;
and he put the maid-servants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.
And he passed over before them and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came near to his brother.
And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who [are] these with thee? And he said, The children whom God hath graciously given thy servant.
And the maid-servants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.
And Leah also drew near and her children, and they bowed. And after drew near Joseph and Rachel, and they bowed.
And he said, What [meanest] thou [by] all this band which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.
And Esau said, I have much, my brother; let that which [is] thine be to thee.
And Jacob said, No, I pray thee: if now I have found favour in thine eyes, then receive my present at my hand; for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen God’s face, and thou wast pleased with me.
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought thee, because graciously hath God dealt with me, and because I have all. And he urged him, and he took [it].
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go; and I will go before thee.
And he said to him, My lord knoweth the children [are] tender, and the flocks and the herds with young [are] with me; and if they should overdrive them one day, then all the flock will die.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I will lead on softly according to the pace of the cattle that are before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord unto Seir.
And Esau said, Let me leave, I pray thee, of the people that [are] with me. And he said, Why this? Let me find favour in my lord’s eyes.
And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him a house, and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the place was called Succoth .
And Jacob came [in] peace [to the] city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram, and encamped before the city.
And he bought an allotment of the field where he had spread his tent, at the hands of Hamor’s sons, father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitahs .
And he set up there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.