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¹ Ya`akov lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esav was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Le'ah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids. ² He put the handmaids and their children in front, Le'ah and her children after, and Rachel and Yosef 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 Esav 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 handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. ⁷ Le'ah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Yosef came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves. ⁸ Esav said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Ya`akov said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord." <sup>9</sup> Esav said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours." <sup>10</sup> Ya`akov 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 Esav said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you." ¹³ Ya`akov 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. <sup>14</sup> Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, 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 to Se`ir." ¹⁵ Esav said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

¹⁶ So Esav returned that day on his way to Se`ir. <sup>17</sup> Ya`akov journeyed to Sukkot, built himself a house, and made shelters for his cattle. Therefore the name of the place is called Sukkot. ¹⁸ Ya`akov came in shalom to the city of Shekhem, which is in the land of Kana`an, 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, Shekhem's father, for one hundred pieces of money. ²⁰ He erected an altar there, and called it El-Elohe-Yisra'el.