Jacob Meets Esau

1And Jacob will lift up his eyes and will see, and behold Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he will divide the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two maids. 2And he set the maids and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind them. 3And he passed through before them, and he will bow himself upon the earth seven times till he brought himself near to his brother.

4And Esau will run to his meeting and he will embrace him and will fall upon his neck and will kiss him, and they will weep. 5And he will lift up his eyes and will see the women and the children, and he will say, To whom these to thee? And he will say, The children with whom God compassionated thy servant. 6And the maids will draw near, they and their children, and they will bow themselves. 7And Leah also will draw near, and her children, and they will bow themselves; and after, Joseph will draw near and Rachel, and they will prostrate themselves. 8And he will say, What to thee all this camp which I met? and he will say, To find grace in thine eyes, my lord. 9And Esau will say, There is much to me, my brother; what is to thee shall be to thee. 10And Jacob will say, Nay, now, if now I found grace in thine eyes, and take my gift from my hand, for, for this, I saw thy face as seeing the face of God, and thou wilt be satisfied with me. 11Take now my blessing which was brought to thee, for God compassionated me, and because all things are to me; and he will press upon him, and he will take.

12And he will say, We will remove and go, and I will go before thee. 13And he will say to him, My lord knew that the children are tender, and the sheep and the oxen bringing forth with me, and they overdrive them one day all the flock will die. 14Now my lord, shall pass through before his servant, and I will drive out softly, according to the foot of the work before me and according to the foot of the children, till I shall come to my lord to Seir.

15And Esau will say, I will leave now with thee, from the people which are to me; and he will say, For what this? I shall find grace in the eyes of my lord. 16And Esau will turn back in that day on his way to Seir. 17And Jacob will remove to the booths, and he will build for himself a house, and he made booths for his cattle; for this he called the name of the place Booths.

Jacob Settles in Shechem

18And Jacob will go to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, in his going from Padan Aram; and he will encamp before the city. 19And he will buy a part of the field where he spread there his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred lambs. 20And he will set there an altar, and he will call upon it, God the God of Israel.