Genesis 33
1NOW when Jacob looked up and saw with his eyes, that lo! Esau his brother was coming and with him four hundred men; thereupon Jacob divided his children to Leia, and Rachel, and the two maids.
2And he put the two maids and their children foremost, and Leia and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.
3And he himself went before them; and he made a low obeisance to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother.
4And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell upon his neck and kissed him and they both wept.
5And when Esau looked up and saw the women and the children he said, What! Are these thine! To which Jacob replied, These are the children with which God hath favoured thy servant.
6Then the maids and their children came near and made obeisance;
7next Leia and her children came near and made obeisance; and after that Rachel came near with Joseph;
8and when they had made obeisance he said, What is the meaning of all those droves which I met? And Jacob said, That thy servant may find favour in the sight of thee my lord.
9Whereupon Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep thou thine own.
10But Jacob replied, If I have found favour in thy sight, receive these presents at my hands, because I have seen thy face as one would see the face of God; and thou wilt oblige me.
11Receive these my blessings which I have brought thee; because God hath dealt bountifully with me, and is all things to me. So he pressed him and he took them.
12Then he said, Let us depart and march on straightway.
13But Jacob said to him, My lord perceiveth that the children are tender, and the sheep and cows with me have just had young. If therefore I over drive them one day, all the cattle will die.
14Let my lord go on before his servant, and I will recruit them on the way by a leisurely march as fast as the young can walk, until I come to my lord at Seir.
15Then Esau said, Let me leave with thee some of the people who are with me. To which Jacob replied, What need is there? It is sufficient that I have found favour in the sight of thee, my lord.
16So Esau set out that day on his return to Seir
17and Jacob marched on to Booths, and there built houses for himself and booths for his cattle, for which cause he called the name of that place Booths.
18And when Jacob came from Syrian Mesopotamia he went to Salem a city of the Sekimites which is in the land of Chanaan, and encamped before the city,
19and purchased of Emmor, the father of Sychem, the part of the field where he had pitched his tent for a hundred lambs
20and he erected there an altar and invoked the God of Israel.