Genesis 33

1And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids.

1Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.

2And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.

2He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.

3And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times, until his brother came near.

3And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.

4Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.

4Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.

5And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me, thy servant.

5Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.

6Then the handmaids and their children came near and bowed themselves.

6Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.

7Lia also, with her children, came near and bowed down in like manner; and last of all, Joseph and Rachel bowed down.

7And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.

8And Esau said: What are the droves that I met? He answered: That I might find favour before my lord.

8And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

9But he said: I have plenty, my brother, keep what is thine for thyself.

9But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

10And Jacob said: Do not so I beseech thee, but if I have found favour in thy eyes, receive a little present at my hands: for I have seen thy face, as if I should have seen the countenance of God: be gracious to me,

10And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

11And take the blessing which I have brought thee, and which God hath given me, who giveth all things. He took it with much ado at his brother's earnest pressing him,

11Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

12And said: Let us go on together, and I will accompany thee in thy journey.

12And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

13And Jacob said: My lord, thou knowest that I have with me tender children, and sheep, and kine with young: which if I should cause to be overdriven, in one day all the flocks will die.

13But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

14May it please my lord to go before his servant: and I will follow softly after him, as I shall see my children to be able, until I come to my lord in Seir.

14Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

15Esau answered: I beseech thee, that some of the people, at least, who are with me, may stay to accompany thee in the way. And he said: There is no necessity: I want nothing else but only to find favour, my lord, in thy sight.

15And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

16So Esau returned that day, the way that he came, to Seir.

16So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

17And Jacob came to Socoth: where having built a house, and pitched tents, he called the name of the place Socoth, that is, Tents.

17And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.

18And he passed over to Salem, a city of the Sichemites, which is in the land of Chanaan, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria: and he dwelt by the town.

18So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.

19And he bought that part of the field, in which he pitched his tents, of the children of Hemor, the father of Sichem, for a hundred lambs.

19And 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.

20And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

20And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.