33:8 Esau 6 then asked, “What did you intend 7 by sending all these herds to meet me?” 8 Jacob 9 replied, “To find favor in your sight, my lord.” 33:9 But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.” 33:10 “No, please take them,” Jacob said. 10 “If I have found favor in your sight, accept 11 my gift from my hand. Now that I have seen your face and you have accepted me, 12 it is as if I have seen the face of God. 13 33:11 Please take my present 14 that was brought to you, for God has been generous 15 to me and I have all I need.” 16 When Jacob urged him, he took it. 17
33:12 Then Esau 18 said, “Let’s be on our way! 19 I will go in front of you.” 33:13 But Jacob 20 said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, 21 and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. 22 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, 23 until I come to my lord at Seir.”
33:15 So Esau said, “Let me leave some of my men with you.” 24 “Why do that?” Jacob replied. 25 “My lord has already been kind enough to me.” 26
33:16 So that same day Esau made his way back 27 to Seir. 33:17 But 28 Jacob traveled to Succoth 29 where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called 30 Succoth. 31
33:18 After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near 32 the city. 33:19 Then he purchased the portion of the field where he had pitched his tent; he bought it 33 from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of money. 34 33:20 There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.” 35