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¹ And Jacob lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divides the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants;² and he sets the maidservants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.³ And he himself passed over before them, and bows himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing near to his brother,⁴ and Esau runs to meet him, and embraces him, and falls on his neck, and kisses him, and they weep;

⁵ and he lifts up his eyes, and sees the women and the children, and says, "What [are] these to you?" And he says, "The children with whom God has favored your servant."⁶ And the maidservants draw near, they and their children, and bow themselves;⁷ and Leah also draws near, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterward Joseph has drawn near with Rachel, and they bow themselves.⁸ And he says, "What to you [is] all this camp which I have met?" And he says, "To find grace in the eyes of my lord."⁹ And Esau says, "I have abundance, my brother, that which you have, let it be for yourself."¹⁰ And Jacob says, "No, please, now if I have found grace in your eyes, then you have received my present from my hand, because that I have seen your face, as the seeing of the face of God, and you are pleased with me;¹¹ please receive my blessing which is brought to you, because God has favored me, and because I have all [things]"; and he presses on him, and he receives [it],¹² and says, "Let us journey and go on, and I go on before you."¹³ And he says to him, "My lord knows that the children [are] tender, and the suckling flock and the herd [are] with me; when they have beaten them one day, then all the flock has died.¹⁴ Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which [is] before me, and to the foot of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir."¹⁵ And Esau says, "Please let me place with you some of the people who [are] with me"; and he said, "Why [is] this? I find grace in the eyes of my lord."

¹⁶ And Esau turns back on that day on his way to Seir;¹⁷ and Jacob has journeyed to Succoth, and builds a house for himself, and has made shelters for his livestock, therefore he has called the name of the place Succoth.¹⁸ And Jacob comes safe [to the] city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and encamps before the city,¹⁹ and he buys the portion of the field where he has stretched out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for one hundred kesitah;²⁰ and he sets up there an altar, and proclaims at it God—the God of Israel.