Genesis 33

VIN(i) 1 Jacob saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. Therefore he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two concubines. 2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear. 3 Jacob went ahead of them. He bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. 4 But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell upon his neck and kissed him, and they wept. 5 Then Esau lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children and said, "Who are these with you?" And he said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant." 6 And the maidservants and their children drew near and bowed down. 7 And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed down; and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed down. 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 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have yourself. 10 And Jacob said, "No, please, if I have found favor in your eyes, you must take my gift from my hand, for then I have seen your face which is like seeing the face of God, and you have received me. 11 Please take my blessing that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he accepted. 12 Then he said, Let us depart and march on straightway. 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 Let my lord pass on before his servant and I will move along slowly at the pace of the livestock that are ahead of me, and at the pace of the children until I come to my lord in Seir." 15 And Esau said, "Let me leave some of my people with you." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord." 16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir. 17 Jacob moved on to Succoth. He built a house there for himself and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place is named Succoth. 18 Jacob traveled safely from Paddan-aram to the city of Shechem in Canaan. He camped within sight of the city. 19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents. 20 And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.