33:12 Then Esau 9 said, “Let’s be on our way! 10 I will go in front of you.” 33:13 But Jacob 11 said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, 12 and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. 13 If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die. 33:14 Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, 14 until I come to my lord at Seir.”
33:15 So Esau said, “Let me leave some of my men with you.” 15 “Why do that?” Jacob replied. 16 “My lord has already been kind enough to me.” 17
33:16 So that same day Esau made his way back 18 to Seir. 33:17 But 19 Jacob traveled to Succoth 20 where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called 21 Succoth. 22
33:18 After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near 23 the city. 33:19 Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it 24 from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money. 25 33:20 There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.” 26