^{9 Ref} But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

^{10 Ref} And Jacob said, Not so; but if I have grace in your eyes, take them as a sign of my love, for I have seen your face as one may see the face of God, and you have been pleased with me.

^{11 Ref} Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

¹² And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

^{13 Ref} But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

^{14 Ref} Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

^{15 Ref} And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

¹⁶ So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

^{17 Ref} And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.

^{18 Ref} So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town.

^{19 Ref} And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

^{20 Ref} And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.