1Jacob lifted his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.2He placed the maidservants and their children first, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last.3He passed before them and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.4Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.5Esau lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, "Who are these to you?" He said, "The children whom God has been gracious to give to your servant."6The maidservants approached, they and their children, and bowed.7Leah also approached with her children, and they bowed. Afterward Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed.8He said, "What do you mean by all this camp that I met?" He said, "To find favor in the eyes of my lord."9Esau said, "I have plenty, my brother. Let what is yours be yours."10Jacob said, "Please do not. If I have found favor in your eyes, then take my gift from my hand, for I have seen your face as one sees the face of God, and you have accepted me."11Please take my blessing that has been brought to you, for God has been gracious to me and I have all. He urged him, and he took it.12He said, "Let us set out and go, and I will go before you."13He said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and the cattle are nursing; if they drive them hard for one day, then all the flock will die."14Please let my lord pass before his servant, and I will lead on slowly at the pace of the livestock that are before me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.15Esau said, "Let me leave some of the people who are with me with you." Jacob said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord."16That day Esau returned on his way to Seir.17Jacob set out to Succoth. He built himself a house, and for his livestock he made booths; therefore he called the name of the place Succoth.18Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram, and he camped before the city.19He bought the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of money.20There he set up an altar and called it El Elohe Israel.