1 Levantando Jacó os olhos, viu que Esaú se aproximava, e com ele quatrocentos homens. Então, passou os filhos a Lia, a Raquel e às duas servas. 2 Pôs as servas e seus filhos à frente, Lia e seus filhos atrás deles e Raquel e José por últimos. 3 E ele mesmo, adiantando-se, prostrou-se à terra sete vezes, até aproximar-se de seu irmão. 4 Então, Esaú correu-lhe ao encontro e o abraçou; arrojou-se-lhe ao pescoço e o beijou; e choraram. 5 Daí, levantando os olhos, viu as mulheres e os meninos e disse: Quem são estes contigo? Respondeu-lhe Jacó: Os filhos com que Deus agraciou a teu servo. 6 Então, se aproximaram as servas, elas e seus filhos, e se prostraram. 7 Chegaram também Lia e seus filhos e se prostraram; por último chegaram José e Raquel e se prostraram. 8 Perguntou Esaú: Qual é o teu propósito com todos esses bandos que encontrei? Respondeu Jacó: Para lograr mercê na presença de meu senhor. 9 Então, disse Esaú: Eu tenho muitos bens, meu irmão; guarda o que tens. 10 Mas Jacó insistiu: Não recuses; se logrei mercê diante de ti, peço-te que aceites o meu presente, porquanto vi o teu rosto como se tivesse contemplado o semblante de Deus; e te agradaste de mim. 11 Peço-te, pois, recebe o meu presente, que eu te trouxe; porque Deus tem sido generoso para comigo, e tenho fartura. E instou com ele, até que o aceitou.

12 Disse Esaú: Partamos e caminhemos; eu seguirei junto de ti. 13 Porém Jacó lhe disse: Meu senhor sabe que estes meninos são tenros, e tenho comigo ovelhas e vacas de leite; se forçadas a caminhar demais um só dia, morrerão todos os rebanhos. 14 Passe meu senhor adiante de seu servo; eu seguirei guiando-as pouco a pouco, no passo do gado que me vai à frente e no passo dos meninos, até chegar a meu senhor, em Seir.

15 Respondeu Esaú: Então, permite que eu deixe contigo da gente que está comigo. Disse Jacó: Para quê? Basta que eu alcance mercê aos olhos de meu senhor. 16 Assim, voltou Esaú aquele dia a Seir, pelo caminho por onde viera. 17 E Jacó partiu para Sucote, e edificou para si uma casa, e fez palhoças para o seu gado; por isso, o lugar se chamou Sucote.

18 Voltando de Padã-Arã, chegou Jacó são e salvo à cidade de Siquém, que está na terra de Canaã; e armou a sua tenda junto da cidade. 19 A parte do campo, onde armara a sua tenda, ele a comprou dos filhos de Hamor, pai de Siquém, por cem peças de dinheiro. 20 E levantou ali um altar e lhe chamou Deus, o Deus de Israel.

1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two handmaids.

2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.

3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and 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, Who are those with you? And he said, The children which God has graciously given your servant.

6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

8 And he said, What mean you by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that you have to yourself.

10 And Jacob said, No, I pray you, if now I have found grace in your sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen your face, as though I had seen the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

11 Take, I pray you, my blessing that is brought to you; because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.

13 And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.

14 Let my lord, I pray you, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goes before me and the children be able to endure, until I come to my lord to Seir.

15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needs it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.

19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem' father, for an hundred pieces of money.

20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.