Genesis
Chapter 33
1 Jacob looked and saw Esau coming with four hundred men. He split the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two servant women.
2 He placed the servant women and their kids first, then Leah and her kids in the middle, and Rachel and Joseph last.
3 He went ahead of them, bowed down to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
4 Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, cried on his shoulder, and kissed him; and they both cried.
5 He looked up, saw the women and children, and asked, “Who are these with you?” He answered, “These are the children God has kindly given to me, your servant.”
6 The female servants and their children approached and bowed down.
7 Leah and her children approached and bowed down. Then Joseph and Rachel came close and they also bowed down.
8 He asked, “What’s the purpose of all the animals I met?” And he replied, “They are to gain favor in your eyes.”
9 Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”
10 Jacob said, “Please, if I have found favor with you, accept my gift from me. Seeing you is like seeing the face of God since you have accepted me.”
11 Please accept my gift to you; God has been good to me, and I have all I need. He insisted, and the other person accepted it.
12 He said, “Let’s start our trip, let’s go, and I will lead you.”
13 He said to him, “You know the children are delicate, and the animals with young are with me. If anyone drives them too hard, even for one day, they will all die.”
14 Please, let my lord go ahead of his servant, and I will follow slowly at the pace of the cattle and children until I meet my lord in Seir.
15 Esau said, “Can I leave some of my people with you?” But he answered, “Why do that? I just want to be on good terms with you.”
16 So Esau went back to Seir that day.
17 Jacob traveled to Succoth, built a house for himself, and made shelters for his animals; that’s why the place is named Succoth.
18 Jacob arrived at Shalem, a city near Shechem in Canaan, after traveling from Padanaram and set up his tent outside the city.
19 He bought a piece of land where he had pitched his tent from Hamor’s descendants, the father of Shechem, for a hundred coins.
20 He built an altar there and named it God of Israel.