331And Jacob lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divideth the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two maid-servants;+2and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.+3And he himself passed over before them, and boweth himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing nigh unto his brother,+4and Esau runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and falleth on his neck, and kisseth him, and they weep;+5and he lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the women and the children, and saith, `What are these to thee?' And he saith, `The children with whom God hath favoured thy servant.'+6And the maid-servants draw nigh, they and their children, and bow themselves; 7and Leah also draweth nigh, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterwards Joseph hath drawn nigh with Rachel, and they bow themselves. 8And he saith, `What to thee is all this camp which I have met?' and he saith, `To find grace in the eyes of my lord.'+9And Esau saith, `I have abundance, my brother, let it be to thyself that which thou hast.'+10And Jacob saith, `Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, then thou hast received my present from my hand, because that I have seen thy face, as the seeing of the face of God, and thou art pleased with me;+11receive, I pray thee, my blessing, which is brought to thee, because God hath favoured me, and because I have all things;' and he presseth on him, and he receiveth,+12and saith, `Let us journey and go on, and I go on before thee.' 13And he saith unto him, `My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the suckling flock and the herd are with me; when they have beaten them one day, then hath all the flock died.+14Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant, and I--I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which is before me, and to the foot of the children, until that I come unto my lord, to Seir.'+15And Esau saith, `Let me, I pray thee, place with thee some of the people who are with me;' and he said, `Why is this? I find grace in the eyes of my lord.'+16And turn back on that day doth Esau on his way to Seir;+17and Jacob hath journeyed to Succoth, and buildeth to himself a house, and for his cattle hath made booths, therefore hath he called the name of the place Succoth.+
Jacob Settles in Shechem
18And Jacob cometh in to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and encampeth before the city,+19and he buyeth the portion of the field where he hath stretched out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitah;+20and he setteth up there an altar, and proclaimeth at it God--the God of Israel.+
Young's Literal Translation
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