Chapter 33

¹And 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; <sup>11</sup>receive, 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. <sup>14</sup>Let 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. 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.