¹ Jakov podiže oči i opazi gdje dolazi Ezav i s njime četiri stotine ljudi. Onda on podijeli svoju djecu među Leu, Rahelu i dvije sluškinje;

² postavi sluškinje i njihovu djecu na čelo; iza njih Leu i njezinu djecu; a Rahelu i Josipa straga.

³ Sam prođe naprijed, nakloni se do zemlje sedam puta dok se ne primače svome bratu.

⁴ Ezav mu potrča u susret. Zagrli ga padnuvši mu oko vrata, poljubi ga i zaplaka.

⁵ Onda podiže oči i vidje žene i djecu. "Tko su ovi s tobom?" - zapita. On odgovori: "Djeca kojom je Bog obdario tvoga slugu."

⁶ Potom naprijed stupe sluškinje sa svojom djecom te se duboko naklone.

⁷ Naprijed stupi i Lea sa svojom djecom te se duboko nakloni. Najposlije stupe naprijed Josip i Rahela te se duboko naklone.

⁸ Ezav upita: "Što kaniš sa svom ovom povorkom što sam je sreo?" Odgovori: "Naći naklonost svoga gospodara."

⁹ Ezav odgovori: "Ja imam dosta, brate moj. Neka ostane tebi što je tvoje."

¹⁰ A Jakov reče: "Nemoj tako! Ako sam našao naklonost u tvojim očima, primi dar iz moje ruke; jer meni je, što si me ljubezno primio, kao da gledam lice Božje.

¹¹ Zato prihvati moj dar što sam ti ga donio; Bog mi je bio sklon te imam svega." Kako ga je uporno nagovarao, Ezav prihvati.

¹² "Pođimo na put", reče Ezav, "i ja ću s tobom putovati."

¹³ Ali mu on odvrati: "Zna moj gospodar da su djeca nejaka. Osim toga, valja mi se brinuti o ovcama i kravama koje doje: ako bi se tjerale prebrzo samo jednog dana, sve bi pocrkale.

¹⁴ Neka moj gospodar ide ispred svoga sluge, a ja ću ići polako, uz korak marve pred sobom i uz korak djece, dok ne stignem k svome gospodaru u Seir."

¹⁵ Onda reče Ezav: "Da ti barem ostavim nekoliko ljudi koji se sa mnom nalaze." Ali on odgovori: "Čemu to? Neka ja samo nađem milost u očima svoga gospodara!"

¹⁶ Tako se Ezav onog dana zaputi natrag u Seir,

¹⁷ dok je Jakov otišao u Sukot, gdje sebi sagradi kuću, a svom blagu podigne staje. Stoga je onom mjestu dano ime Sukot.

¹⁸ Došavši tako iz Padan Arama, Jakov sretno stigne u grad Šekem, koji se nalazi u zemlji kanaanskoj, i postavi svoj šator pred gradom.

¹⁹ A komad zemlje na kojoj je postavio svoj šator kupi od sinova Hamora, Šekemova oca, za stotinu kesita.

²⁰ Tu podiže žrtvenik i nazva ga "El, Bog Izraelov".

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 handmaids.

² He put the handmaids 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 handmaids 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 us take our journey, and let us 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 folk 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.