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 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

² Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

³ Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

⁴ They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

⁵ They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Jacob.

⁶ So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

⁷ He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

⁸ Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

⁹ God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

¹⁰ God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

¹¹ God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

¹² The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

¹³ God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

¹⁴ Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

¹⁵ Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

¹⁶ They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

¹⁷ When she was in hard labor, the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."

¹⁸ It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

¹⁹ Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath (the same is Bethlehem).

²⁰ Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.

²¹ Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

²² It happened, while Israel lived in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

²³ The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

²⁴ The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

²⁵ The sons of Bilhah (Rachel's handmaid): Dan and Naphtali.

²⁶ The sons of Zilpah (Leah's handmaid): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

²⁷ Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

²⁸ The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

²⁹ Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.