¹ 雅各舉目觀看，見以掃來了，後頭跟著四百人，他就把孩子們分開交給利亞、拉結，和兩個使女，

² 並且叫兩個使女和他們的孩子在前頭，利亞和他的孩子在後頭，拉結和約瑟在儘後頭。

³ 他自己在他們前頭過去，一連七次俯伏在地才就近他哥哥。

⁴ 以掃跑來迎接他，將他抱住，又摟著他的頸項，與他親嘴，兩個人就哭了。

⁵ 以掃舉目看見婦人孩子，就說：這些？和你同行的是誰呢？雅各說：這些孩子是神施恩給你的僕人的。

⁶ 於是兩個使女和他們的孩子前來下拜；

⁷ 利亞和他的孩子也前來下拜；隨後約瑟和拉結也前來下拜。

⁸ 以掃說：我所遇見的這些群畜是甚麼意思呢？雅各說：是要在我主面前蒙恩的。

⁹ 以掃說：兄弟阿，我的已經夠了，你的仍歸你罷！

¹⁰ 雅各說：不然，我若在你眼前蒙恩，就求你從我手裡收下這禮物；因為我見了你的面，如同見了神的面，並且你容納了我。

¹¹ 求你收下我帶來給你的禮物；因為神恩待我，使我充足。雅各再三地求他，他才收下了。

¹² 以掃說：我們可以起身前往，我在你前頭走。

¹³ 雅各對他說：我主知道孩子們年幼嬌嫩，牛羊也正在乳養的時候，若是催趕一天，群畜都必死了。

¹⁴ 求我主在僕人前頭走，我要量著在我面前群畜和孩子的力量慢慢地前行，直走到西珥我主那裡。

¹⁵ 以掃說：容我把跟隨我的人留幾個在你這裡。雅各說：何必呢？只要在我主眼前蒙恩就是了。

¹⁶ 於是，以掃當日起行，回往西珥去了。

¹⁷ 雅各就往疏割去，在那裡為自己蓋造房屋，又為牲畜搭棚；因此那地方名叫疏割(就是棚的意思)。

¹⁸ 雅各從巴旦亞蘭回來的時候，平平安安地到了迦南地的示劍城，在城東支搭帳棚，

¹⁹ 就用一百塊銀子向示劍的父親、哈抹的子孫買了支帳棚的那塊地，

²⁰ 在那裡築了一座壇，起名叫伊利伊羅伊以色列(就是神、以色列神的意思)。

¹ Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah's life.

² Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

³ Abraham rose up from before his dead, and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

⁴ "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

⁵ The children of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

⁶ "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."

⁷ Abraham rose up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.

⁸ He talked with them, saying, "If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

⁹ that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

¹⁰ Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

¹¹ "No, my lord, hear me. I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the children of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."

¹² Abraham bowed himself down before the people of the land.

¹³ He spoke to Ephron in the audience of the people of the land, saying, "But if you will, please hear me. I will give the price of the field. Take it from me, and I will bury my dead there."

¹⁴ Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

¹⁵ "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

¹⁶ Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

¹⁷ So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded

¹⁸ to Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.

¹⁹ After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

²⁰ The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.