¹ 雅各举目观看，见以扫来了，後头跟着四百人，他就把孩子们分开交给利亚、拉结，和两个使女，

² 并且叫两个使女和他们的孩子在前头，利亚和他的孩子在後头，拉结和约瑟在尽後头。

³ 他自己在他们前头过去，一连七次俯伏在地才就近他哥哥。

⁴ 以扫跑来迎接他，将他抱住，又搂着他的颈项，与他亲嘴，两个人就哭了。

⁵ 以扫举目看见妇人孩子，就说：这些？和你同行的是谁呢？雅各说：这些孩子是神施恩给你的仆人的。

⁶ 於是两个使女和他们的孩子前来下拜；

⁷ 利亚和他的孩子也前来下拜；随後约瑟和拉结也前来下拜。

⁸ 以扫说：我所遇见的这些群畜是甚麽意思呢？雅各说：是要在我主面前蒙恩的。

⁹ 以扫说：兄弟阿，我的已经够了，你的仍归你罢！

¹⁰ 雅各说：不然，我若在你眼前蒙恩，就求你从我手里收下这礼物；因为我见了你的面，如同见了神的面，并且你容纳了我。

¹¹ 求你收下我带来给你的礼物；因为神恩待我，使我充足。雅各再三地求他，他才收下了。

¹² 以扫说：我们可以起身前往，我在你前头走。

¹³ 雅各对他说：我主知道孩子们年幼娇嫩，牛羊也正在乳养的时候，若是催赶一天，群畜都必死了。

¹⁴ 求我主在仆人前头走，我要量着在我面前群畜和孩子的力量慢慢地前行，直走到西珥我主那里。

¹⁵ 以扫说：容我把跟随我的人留几个在你这里。雅各说：何必呢？只要在我主眼前蒙恩就是了。

¹⁶ 於是，以扫当日起行，回往西珥去了。

¹⁷ 雅各就往疏割去，在那里为自己盖造房屋，又为牲畜搭棚；因此那地方名叫疏割(就是棚的意思)。

¹⁸ 雅各从巴旦亚兰回来的时候，平平安安地到了迦南地的示剑城，在城东支搭帐棚，

¹⁹ 就用一百块银子向示剑的父亲、哈抹的子孙买了支帐棚的那块地，

²⁰ 在那里筑了一座坛，起名叫伊利伊罗伊以色列(就是神、以色列神的意思)。

¹ Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

² Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

³ He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

⁴ to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

⁵ Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

⁶ The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

⁷ There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

⁸ Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.

⁹ Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

¹⁰ Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

¹¹ So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

¹² Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

¹³ Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.

¹⁴ Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

¹⁵ for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

¹⁶ I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

¹⁷ Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its breadth; for I will give it to you."

¹⁸ Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.