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33:1  Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.
33:2  He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
33:3  He himself went on ahead of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his brother.
33:4  But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
33:5  When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he said, ‘Who are these with you?’ Jacob said, ‘The children whom God has graciously given your servant.’
33:6  Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;
33:7  Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and finally Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.
33:8  Esau said, ‘What do you mean by all this company that I met?’ Jacob answered, ‘To find favour with my lord.’
33:9  But Esau said, ‘I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.’
33:10  Jacob said, ‘No, please; if I find favour with you, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God—since you have received me with such favour.
33:11  Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want.’ So he urged him, and he took it.
33:12  Then Esau said, ‘Let us journey on our way, and I will go alongside you.’
33:13  But Jacob said to him, ‘My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds, which are nursing, are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.
33:14  Let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.’
33:15  So Esau said, ‘Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.’ But he said, ‘Why should my lord be so kind to me?’
33:16  So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.
33:17  But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the place is called Succoth.
33:18  Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.
33:19  And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, he bought for one hundred pieces of money the plot of land on which he had pitched his tent.
33:20  There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.