10. “No!” Jacob said. “Please accept these gifts as a sign of your friendship for me. When you welcomed me and I saw your face, it was like seeing the face of God.
11. Please accept these gifts I brought to you. God has been good to me, and I have everything I need.” Jacob kept insisting until Esau accepted the gifts.
12. “Let's get ready to travel,” Esau said. “I'll go along with you.”
13. But Jacob answered, “Master, you know travelling is hard on children, and I have to look after the sheep and goats that are nursing their young. If my animals travel too much in one day, they will all die.
14. Why don't you go on ahead and let me travel along slowly with the children, the herds, and the flocks. We can meet again in the country of Edom.”
15. Esau replied, “Let me leave some of my men with you.”“You don't have to do that,” Jacob answered. “I am happy, simply knowing that you are friendly to me.”
16. So Esau left for Edom.
17. But Jacob went to Succoth, where he built a house for himself and set up shelters for his animals. That's why the place is called Succoth.
18. After leaving northern Syria, Jacob arrived safely at Shechem in Canaan and set up camp outside the city.
19. The land where he camped was owned by the descendants of Hamor, the father of Shechem. So Jacob paid them one hundred pieces of silver for the property,
20. then he set up his tents and built an altar there to honour the God of Israel.