Genesis 33:13-20 ▼

13 |Sir, you know that the children are frail,| Jacob suggested, |and the ewes and cows with me are still nursing their young. If they're driven even for a day, the entire flock will die.

14 So allow yourself to go ahead of your servant while I travel more slowly, letting the herds set their own pace with the children until I arrive to see my lord in Seir.|

15 Esau said, |Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.| |Why do that?| Jacob asked. |I've already found favor in your sight, sir.|

16 So Esau set out that very day back on his way to Seir,

17 but Jacob set out for Succoth, built a house there, and constructed some cattle shelters. He named the place Succoth.

18 After Jacob had arrived safely from Paddan-aram, he entered the city of Shechem, which was located in the territory of Canaan, and encamped facing that city.

19 Then he bought a parcel of land for 100 pieces of silver from the descendants of Hamor, Shechem's father. He pitched his tent there,

20 set up an altar, and named it El-elohe-israel.