1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. 9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself. 10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me. 11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it . 12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee. 13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die. 14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir. 15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
16 ¶ So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir. 17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
18 ¶ And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city. 19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money. 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.
1 levans autem Iacob oculos suos vidit venientem Esau
et cum eo quadringentos viros
divisitque filios Liae et Rahel ambarumque famularum
2 et posuit utramque ancillam et liberos earum in principio
Liam vero et filios eius in secundo loco
Rahel autem et Ioseph novissimos
3 et ipse praegrediens adoravit pronus in terram
septies
donec adpropinquaret frater eius
4 currens itaque Esau obviam fratri suo amplexatus est eum
stringensque collum et osculans flevit
5 levatisque oculis vidit mulieres et parvulos earum et ait
quid sibi volunt isti et si ad te pertinent
respondit parvuli sunt quos donavit mihi Deus servo tuo
6 et adpropinquantes ancillae et filii earum incurvati sunt
7 accessitque Lia cum liberis suis
et cum similiter adorassent extremi Ioseph et Rahel adoraverunt
8 quaenam sunt inquit istae turmae quas obvias
habui
respondit ut invenirem gratiam coram domino meo
9 et ille habeo ait plurima
frater mi sint tua tibi
10 dixit Iacob noli ita obsecro
sed si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis
accipe munusculum de manibus meis
sic enim vidi faciem tuam quasi viderim vultum Dei
esto mihi propitius
11 et suscipe benedictionem quam adtuli tibi
et quam donavit mihi Deus tribuens omnia
vix fratre conpellente suscipiens
12 ait
gradiamur simul eroque socius itineris tui
13 dixit Iacob nosti domine mi quod parvulos habeam teneros
et oves ac boves fetas mecum
quas si plus in ambulando fecero laborare
morientur una die cuncti greges
14 praecedat dominus meus ante servum suum
et ego sequar paulatim vestigia eius
sicut videro posse parvulos meos
donec veniam ad dominum meum in Seir
15 respondit Esau oro te
ut de populo qui mecum est saltem socii remaneant viae tuae
non est inquit necesse
hoc uno indigeo ut inveniam gratiam in
conspectu domini mei
16 reversus est itaque illo die Esau itinere quo venerat in Seir
17 et Iacob venit in Soccoth
ubi aedificata domo et fixis tentoriis
appellavit nomen loci illius Soccoth id est Tabernacula
18 transivitque in Salem urbem Sycimorum quae est in terra Chanaan
postquam regressus est de Mesopotamiam
Syriae
et habitavit iuxta oppidum
19 emitque partem agri in qua fixerat tabernaculum
a filiis Emor patris Sychem centum agnis
20 et erecto ibi altari invocavit super illud Fortissimum Deum Israhel