1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:2 and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.3 And he passed on before them, and bowed to the earth 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 these with thee? And he said, The children that God has graciously given thy servant.6 And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.7 And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed.8 And he said, What {meanest} thou by all the drove which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what thou hast be thine.10 And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; if now I have found favour in thine eyes, then receive my gift from my hand; for therefore have I seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast received me with pleasure.11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing which has been brought to thee; because God has been gracious to me, and because I have everything. And he urged him, and he took {it}.12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I will go before thee.13 And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die.14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant, and I will drive on at my ease according to the pace of the cattle that is before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir.15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee {some} of the people that are with me. And he said, What need? Let me find favour in the eyes of my lord.16 And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the place was called Succoth.18 And Jacob came safely {to the} city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.19 And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs.20 And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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 opgeslaan19 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.