1 En Jakob het sy oë opgeslaan, en toe hy meteens Esau sien aankom en vier honderd man saam met hom, het hy die kinders onder Lea en Ragel en onder die twee slavinne verdeel.

2 En hy het die slavinne met hulle kinders eerste, en Lea met haar kinders daaragter, en Ragel en Josef laaste opgestel;

3 maar hy self het voor hulle uit gegaan en hom sewe maal na die aarde gebuig, totdat hy by sy broer gekom het.

4 Toe loop Esau hom tegemoet en omhels hom en val hom om die hals en soen hom; en hulle het geween.

5 Daarna het hy sy oë opgeslaan en die vroue en kinders gesien en gesê: Wie het jy daar by jou? En hy antwoord: Die kinders wat God uit genade aan u dienaar geskenk het.

6 En die slavinne het nader gekom, hulle en hulle kinders, en hul neergebuig.

7 En Lea het ook nader gekom met haar kinders en hul neergebuig; en daarna het Josef nader gekom en Ragel en hul neergebuig.

8 Daarop sê hy: Wat is jou bedoeling met daardie hele laer wat ek teëgekom het? En hy antwoord: Om guns te vind in die oë van my heer.

9 Maar Esau sê: Ek het baie, my broer! Wat joue is, laat dit joue bly!

10 Toe antwoord Jakob: Ag nee, as ek nou guns in u oë gevind het, neem dan my geskenk uit my hand aan. Want juis daarom het ek u aangesig te sien gekry soos 'n mens die aangesig van God sien, en u het behae in my gehad.

11 Neem tog my begroetingsgeskenk wat u aangebied is, want God het my genade bewys, en ek het volop. En hy het by hom aangehou, sodat hy dit aangeneem het.

12 Daarop sê hy: Laat ons opbreek en verder trek, en ek sal langs jou trek.

13 Maar hy antwoord hom: My heer weet dat die kinders swak is, en dat ek lammerooie en melkkoeie by my het; as 'n mens hulle net een dag ooreis, dan sterf al die kleinvee.

14 My heer moet maar voor sy dienaar uit trek, en ,k sal op my gemak trek na die gang van die vee wat voor my uit gaan, en na die gang van die kinders, tot ek by my heer in Se‹r aankom.

15 Toe sê Esau: Laat my tog van die manskappe wat by my is, by jou laat staan. En hy antwoord: Waarvoor dan? Laat my guns in die oë van my heer vind!

16 So het Esau dan die dag teruggegaan padlangs na Se‹r toe.

17 Maar Jakob het na Sukkot weggetrek en vir hom 'n huis gebou en takkrale vir sy vee gemaak. Daarom het hy die plek genoem Sukkot.

18 En Jakob het behoue aangekom by die stad Sigem wat in die land Kana„n is, toe hy van Paddan-Aram gekom het -- hy het sy laer voor die stad opgeslaan

19 en die stuk grond gekoop waar hy sy tent opgeslaan het, van die seuns van Hemor, die vader van Sigem, vir honderd geldstukke.

20 Daar het hy ook 'n altaar opgerig en dit genoem: Die God van Israel is God.

1 Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.

2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.

3 And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.

4 Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.

5 Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.

6 Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.

7 And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.

8 And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

9 But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

10 And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

11 Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

12 And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

13 But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

14 Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

15 And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

16 So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

17 And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.

18 So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.

19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.