1 雅各举目观看， 见以扫带着四百人来了； 他就把孩子分开三队， 交给利亚、拉结和两个婢女。 2 他叫两个婢女和她们的孩子走在前头， 利亚和她的孩子跟着， 拉结和约瑟走在最后。 3 他自己却走在他们前面， 七次俯伏在地， 直到走近他哥哥跟前。 4 以扫跑来迎接他， 拥抱他， 伏在他颈项上， 与他亲嘴； 两个人都哭了。 5 以扫举目观看， 看见妇人和孩子， 就问： "这些与你同来的人是谁？"雅各回答： "是 神赐给你仆人的孩子。" 6 于是， 两个婢女和她们的孩子上前下拜。 7 利亚和她的孩子也上前下拜， 随后， 约瑟和拉结也上前下拜。 8 以扫又问： "我遇见的这一群牲畜， 是什么意思呢？"雅各回答： "是要讨我主喜悦的。" 9 以扫说： "弟弟啊， 我已经很富有了， 你的仍归你吧。" 10 雅各说： "请不要这样， 我若得你的喜悦， 就求你从我手里收下这些礼物吧； 因为我看见了你的面， 就好像见了 神的面； 你实在恩待了我。 11 请你收下我带来给你的礼物， 因为 神施恩给我， 我什么都有了。"雅各再三恳求他， 他才收下了。 12 以扫说： "我们起程前行吧， 我和你一起走。" 13 雅各对他说： "我主知道孩子们还年幼娇嫩； 牛羊也正在乳养的时候， 需要我的照顾； 如果要催赶它们走一天的路， 恐怕所有牲畜都要死了。 14 请我主在仆人前头先行； 我要照着在我面前群畜和孩子们的速度， 慢慢前行， 直走到西珥我主那里去。" 15 以扫说： "让我把跟随我的人留几个在你这里吧。"雅各说： "为什么要这样呢？只要我得我主的喜悦就是了。" 16 于是， 以扫在那一天回西珥去了。 17 雅各却起程到疏割去， 在那里为自己建造了一座房子， 又为牲畜搭了些草棚， 因此给那地方起名叫疏割。 18 雅各从巴旦．亚兰回来的时候， 平平安安地到了迦南地的示剑城， 在城的对面支搭了帐棚。 19 他支搭帐棚的那块地， 是他用一百块银子向示剑的父亲哈抹的子孙买来的。 20 在那里雅各建了一座坛， 给它起名叫伊利．伊罗伊．以色列。

1 And Jacob lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divideth the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two maid-servants;2 and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.3 And he himself passed over before them, and boweth himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing nigh unto his brother,4 and Esau runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and falleth on his neck, and kisseth him, and they weep;5 and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, `What [are] these to thee?` And he saith, `The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.`6 And the maid-servants draw nigh, they and their children, and bow themselves;7 and Leah also draweth nigh, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterwards Joseph hath drawn nigh with Rachel, and they bow themselves.8 And he saith, `What to thee [is] all this camp which I have met?` and he saith, `To find grace in the eyes of my lord.`9 And Esau saith, `I have abundance, my brother, let it be to thyself that which thou hast.`10 And Jacob saith, `Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, then thou hast received my present from my hand, because that I have seen thy face, as the seeing of the face of God, and thou art pleased with me;11 receive, I pray thee, my blessing, which is brought to thee, because God hath favoured me, and because I have all [things];` and he presseth on him, and he receiveth,12 and saith, `Let us journey and go on, and I go on before thee.`13 And he saith unto him, `My lord knoweth that the children [are] tender, and the suckling flock and the herd [are] with me; when they have beaten them one day, then hath all the flock died.14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I -- I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which [is] before me, and to the foot of the children, until that I come unto my lord, to Seir.`15 And Esau saith, `Let me, I pray thee, place with thee some of the people who [are] with me;` and he said, `Why [is] this? I find grace in the eyes of my lord.`16 And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir;17 and Jacob hath journeyed to Succoth, and buildeth to himself a house, and for his cattle hath made booths, therefore hath he called the name of the place Succoth.18 And Jacob cometh in to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and encampeth before the city,19 and he buyeth the portion of the field where he hath stretched out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitah;20 and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God -- the God of Israel.