1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servants. 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4 Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept. 5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?"

He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." 6 Then the servants came near with their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?"

Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

10 Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me. 11 Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." He urged him, and he took it.

12 Esau said, "Let’s take our journey, and let’s go, and I will go before you."

13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die. 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."

15 Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me."

He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18 Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city. 19 He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money. 20 He erected an altar there, 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 opgeslaan

19 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.