1
And Jacob lifted··up his eyes, and saw, and behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men◦. And he halved the children over to Leah, and over to Rachel, and over to the two handmaids.
2
And he set the handmaids and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind.
3
And he◦ himself passed··on before them, and bowed· himself ·down to▫ the earth seven times◦, until he approached, even··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 to thee? And he said, The children with whom God has graced thy servant.
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And the handmaids approached, they◦ and their children, and they bowed· themselves ·down.
7
And Leah also and her children approached, and they bowed· themselves ·down; and afterwards Joseph and Rachel approached, and bowed· themselves ·down.
8
And he said, Who to thee are all these camps whom I encounter? And he said, To find grace in the eyes of my lord.
9
And Esau said, I have◦ much, my brother; be to thee what is to thee.
10
And Jacob said, No, I pray◦, if, I pray◦, I have found grace in thine eyes, then take my gift◦ from my hand; for because that I have seen thy faces as seeing the faces of God, and thou hast been··well··pleased with me.
11
Take, I pray◦, my blessing that is brought to thee; because◦ God has been··gracious··to me, and because◦ I have◦ all. And he urged him, and he took it.
12
And he said, Let us journey and go, and I will go in··front··of thee.
13
And he said to▵ him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flock and the herd with me are sucklings◦, and if they push· them ·on in one day, then all the flock will··die.
14
Let my lord, I pray◦, cross··over before his servant, and I◦ will proceed* slowly as··to the foot steps of the work▵* that is before me, and to the foot steps of the children, until I come to▵ my lord to▫ Seir.
15
And Esau said, Let me now◦ place◦ with thee some from the people who are with◦ me. And he said, Why is this? Let me find grace in the eyes of my lord.
16
And Esau returned in that◦ day to his way, to▫ Seir.
17
And Jacob journeyed to▫ Succoth, and built for himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.
18
And Jacob came to Salem*, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Paddan-aram, and encamped to the faces of the city.
19
And he bought the part of the field, where▵ he had stretched··out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred kesitah.
20
And he set··up there an altar, and he called it El-Elohe-Israel.
