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.

1 Elevans autem Jacob oculos suos, vidit venientem Esau, et cum eo quadringentos viros : divisitque filios Li et Rachel, ambarumque famularum : 2 et posuit utramque ancillam, et liberos earum, in principio : Liam vero, et filios ejus, in secundo loco : Rachel autem et Joseph novissimos. 3 Et ipse progrediens adoravit pronus in terram septies, donec appropinquaret frater ejus. 4 Currens itaque Esau obviam fratri suo, amplexatus est eum : stringensque collum ejus, et osculans flevit. 5 Levatisque oculis, vidit mulieres et parvulos earum, et ait : Quid sibi volunt isti ? et si ad te pertinent ? Respondit : Parvuli sunt quos donavit mihi Deus servo tuo. 6 Et appropinquantes ancill et filii earum, incurvati sunt. 7 Accessit quoque Lia cum pueris suis : et cum similiter adorassent, extremi Joseph et Rachel adoraverunt. 8 Dixitque Esau : Qunam sunt ist turm quas obviam habui ? Respondit : Ut invenirem gratiam coram domino meo. 9 At ille ait : Habeo plurima, frater mi, sint tua tibi. 10 Dixitque Jacob : Noli ita, obsecro : sed si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, accipe munusculum de manibus meis. Sic enim vidi faciem tuam, quasi viderim vultum Dei : esto mihi propitius, 11 et suscipe benedictionem quam attuli tibi, et quam donavit mihi Deus tribuens omnia. Vix fratre compellente, suscipiens, 12 ait : Gradiamur simul, eroque socius itineris tui. 13 Dixitque Jacob : Nosti, domine mi, quod parvulos habeam teneros, et oves, et boves ftas mecum : quas si plus in ambulando fecero laborare, morientur una die cuncti greges. 14 Prcedat dominus meus ante servum suum : et ego sequar paulatim vestigia ejus, sicut videro parvulos meos posse, donec veniam ad dominum meum in Seir. 15 Respondit Esau : Oro te, ut de populo qui mecum est, saltem socri remaneant vi tu. Non est, inquit, necesse : hoc uno tantum indigeo, ut inveniam gratiam in conspectu tuo, domine mi. 16 Reversus est itaque illo die Esau itinere quo venerat in Seir. 17 Et Jacob venit in Socoth : ubi dificata domo et fixis tentoriis appellavit nomen loci illius Socoth, id est, Tabernacula. 18 Transivitque in Salem urbem Sichimorum, qu est in terra Chanaan, postquam reversus est de Mesopotamia Syri : et habitavit juxta oppidum. 19 Emitque partem agri, in qua fixerat tabernacula, a filiis Hemor patris Sichem centum agnis. 20 Et erecto ibi altari, invocavit super illud fortissimum Deum Isral.