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Jacob Meets Esau

¹ Then Jacob lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, ^(C1)Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children ^(F1)among Leah and Rachel and the two servant-women.² And he put the servant-women and their children first, and Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph after them.³ But he himself passed on ahead of them and ^(C1)bowed down to the ground seven times, until he ^(C2)came near to his brother.

⁴ Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and ^(C1)fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.⁵ And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "^(F1)Who are these with you?" And he said, "^(C1)The children whom God has graciously given your servant."⁶ Then the servant-women came near ^(F1)with their children, and they bowed down.⁷ Leah likewise came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.⁸ And he said, "What do you mean by ^(C1)all ^(F1)these camps which I have met?" And he said, "^(C2)To find favor in the sight of my lord."⁹ But Esau said, "^(C1)I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own."¹⁰ And Jacob said, "No, please, if now I have found favor in your sight, then take my present from my hand, ^(F1)for I see your face as one sees the face of God, and you have received me favorably.¹¹ "Please take my ^(C1)blessing which has been brought to you, ^(C2)because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have ^(F1)everything." Thus he urged him, and he took it.

¹² Then ^(F1)Esau said, "Let us take our journey and go, and I will go before you."¹³ But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are weak and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are ^(F1)a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day, all the flocks will die.¹⁴ "Please let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly, 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 at ^(C1)Seir."

¹⁵ Then Esau said, "Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said, "Why do this? ^(C1)Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."¹⁶ So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.¹⁷ But Jacob journeyed to ^(F1)(C1)Succoth and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

Jacob Camps in Shechem

¹⁸ Now Jacob came safely to the city of ^(C1)Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from ^(C2)Paddan-aram, and he camped before the city.^19 (C1)Then he bought a portion of a field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred ^(F1)qesitah.²⁰ Then he set up there an altar and called it ^(F1)El-Elohe-Israel.