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Ask a QuestionThere he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel [God, the God of Israel].
So Esau turned back that day on his way to Seir.
And Esau said, I have plenty, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.
Then [Esau] said, Let us get started on our journey, and I will go before you.
But Jacob journeyed to Succoth and built himself a house and made booths or places of shelter for his livestock; so the name of the place is called Succoth [booths].
But Jacob replied, No, I beg of you, if now I have found favor in your sight, receive my gift that I am presenting; for truly to see your face is to me as if I had seen the face of God, and you have received me favorably.
But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.
Then the maids came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
When Jacob came from Padan-aram, he arrived safely and in peace at the town of Shechem, in the land of Canaan, and pitched his tents before the [enclosed] town.
Esau said, What do you mean by all this company which I met? And he said, These are that I might find favor in the sight of my lord.
And he put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
[Esau] looked up and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And [Jacob] replied, They are the children whom God has graciously given your servant.
And Leah also with her children came near, and they bowed themselves. After them Joseph and Rachel came near, and they bowed themselves.
AND JACOB raised his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming and with him 400 men. So he divided the children to Leah and to Rachel and to the two maids.
Then Jacob went over [the stream] before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
Then he bought the piece of land on which he had encamped from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.
Then Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me. But [Jacob] said, What need is there for it? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.
Accept, I beg of you, my blessing and gift that I have brought to you; for God has dealt graciously with me and I have everything. And he kept urging him and he accepted it.
[The See footnote on Isa. 42:1.Servant of God says] The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple and of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear to hear as a disciple [as one who is taught].
But Jacob replied, You know, my lord, that the children are tender and delicate and need gentle care, and the flocks and herds with young are of concern to me; for if the men should overdrive them for a single day, the whole of the flocks would die.