1 Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.3 He himself went on ahead and bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.4 But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.5 Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. "Who are these with you?" he asked. Jacob answered, "They are the children God has graciously given your servant."6 Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down.7 Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.8 Esau asked, "What's the meaning of all these flocks and herds I met?" "To find favor in your eyes, my lord," he said.9 But Esau said, "I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself."10 "No, please!" said Jacob. "If I have found favor in your eyes, accept this gift from me. For to see your face is like seeing the face of God, now that you have received me favorably.11 Please accept the present that was brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all I need." And because Jacob insisted, Esau accepted it.12 Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way; I'll accompany you."13 But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.14 So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir."15 Esau said, "Then let me leave some of my men with you." "But why do that?" Jacob asked. "Just let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."16 So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir.17 Jacob, however, went to Sukkoth, where he built a place for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is called Sukkoth. [^1]18 After Jacob came from Paddan Aram, "he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in Canaan and camped within sight of the city.19 For a hundred pieces of silver, "he bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent.20 There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel. [^4]

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.