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¹ Iacob lift vp his eyes, & sawe his brother Esau comynge with foure hundreth men: and he deuyded his children vnto Lea vnto Rachel, and to both the maydes,² and set the maydens with their children before, and Lea with hir childre after, and Rachel with Ioseph hynder most.³ And he wente before them, and bowed him self to the grounde seuen tymes, tyll he came to his brother.⁴ But Esau ranne to mete him, and enbraced him, and fell aboute his neck, & kyssed him, and wepte,

⁵ and lift vp his eyes, and sawe the wyues with the children, and sayde: What are these with the? He answered: They are the children, which God hath geuen vnto thy seruaunt.⁶ And the maydens came forth with their children, and dyd their obeysaunce vnto him.⁷ Lea came forth also with hir childre, and kneled vnto him. Afterwarde came Ioseph and Rachel forth, and kneled vnto him likewyse.⁸ And he sayde: What meanest thou wt all the droue that I met? He answered: that I might fynde grace in the sight of my lorde,⁹ Esau sayde: I haue ynough my brother, kepe that thou hast.¹⁰ Iacob answered: Oh nay, but yf I haue founde grace in yi sight, receaue my present of my hande (for I sawe thy face, as though I had sene the face of God) and be at one with me.¹¹ Take this present in good worth, that I haue brought ye, for God hath geuen it me, & I haue ynough of all thinges. So he compelled him to take it.¹² And he sayde: Let vs go on and take oure iourney, I wyll go in thy company.¹³ But he sayde vnto him: My lorde, thou knowest that I haue tender children by me, and small and greate catell also, which are yet but yonge: yf they shulde be dryue ouer in one daye, the whole flocke wolde dye.¹⁴ Let my lorde go on before his seruaut. I wyll dryue after fayre and softly, (there after as the catell & the children can go,) tyll I come to my lorde in Seir.¹⁵ Esau sayde: Yet wil I leaue some of my people with the. He answered: What nede is it? Let me but onely fynde grace in the sight of my lorde.

¹⁶ So Esau departed againe the same daye towarde Seir,¹⁷ and Iacob toke his iourney towarde Sucoth, and buylded him an house, and made tetes for his catell. Therfore is the place called Sucoth.¹⁸ Afterwarde came Iacob peaceably vnto the cite of Sichem, which lyeth in ye lande of Canaan, after that he was come agayne out of Mesopotamia, and pitched before the cite,¹⁹ and bought a pece of londe of the children of Hemor ye father of Sichem for an hundreth pens. There pitched he his tent,²⁰ and there he set vp an altare, and called vpon the name of the mightie God of Israel.