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¹And Jacob raised his eyes and looked, and here was Esau coming, and four hundred men with him.^* And he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids; ²and he placed the maids and their children first, and Leah and her children following, and Rachel and Joseph following, ³and he passed in front of them. And he bowed to the ground seven times until he came up to his brother. ⁴And Esau ran to him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him. And they wept. ⁵And he raised his eyes and saw the women and the children, and he said, “Who are these whom you have?”

And he said, “The children with whom God has graced your servant.”

⁶And the maids came over, they and their children, and bowed. ⁷And Leah and her children, too, came over, and they bowed. And then Joseph and Rachel came over, and they bowed.

⁸And he said, “Who is all this camp of yours that I met?”

And he said, “To find favor in my lord’s eyes.”

⁹And Esau said, “I have a great deal, my brother. Let what’s yours be yours.”

¹⁰And Jacob said, “Don’t. If I’ve found favor in your eyes, then you’ll take my offering from my hand, because on account of this I’ve seen your face— like seeing God’s face!—and you’ve accepted me. “Take my blessing that’s been brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and because I have everything.” And he pressed him, and he took it.

¹²And he said, “Let’s travel, and let’s go. And let me go alongside you.”

¹³And he said to him, “My lord knows that the children are weak and the nursing sheep and oxen are with me, and they’ll drive them one day and all the sheep will die. ¹⁴Let my lord pass on in front of his servant; and I, let me move along at my pace required by the task that’s before me and required by the children until I come to my lord at Seir.”

¹⁵And Esau said, “Let me set with you some of the people who are with me.”

And he said, “Why have I found favor in my lord’s eyes?”

¹⁶And Esau went back on his way to Seir that day, ¹⁷and Jacob traveled to Sukkot. And he built a house for himself and made booths for his cattle. On account of this he called the place’s name Sukkot. ¹⁸And Jacob came, safe, to the city of Shechem, which was in the land of Canaan, when he was coming from Paddan Aram,^* and camped in front of the city. ¹⁹And he bought the section of field in which he pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred qesita. ²⁰And he set up an altar there and called it “El, God of Israel.”