10. Jacob said, “No, please, if I have gained your favour, accept my gift. To see your face is for me like seeing the face of God, now that you have been so friendly to me.
11. Please accept this gift which I have brought for you; God has been kind to me and given me everything I need.” Jacob kept on urging him until he accepted.
12. Esau said, “Let's prepare to leave. I will go ahead of you.”
13. Jacob answered, “You know that the children are weak, and I must think of the sheep and cattle with their young. If they are driven hard for even one day, the whole herd will die.
14. Please go on ahead of me, and I will follow slowly, going as fast as I can with the livestock and the children until I catch up with you in Edom.”
15. Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”But Jacob answered, “There is no need for that for I only want to gain your favour.”
16. So that day Esau started on his way back to Edom.
17. But Jacob went to Sukkoth, where he built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was named Sukkoth.
18. On his return from Mesopotamia Jacob arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan and set up his camp in a field near the city.
19. He bought that part of the field from the descendants of Hamor father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver.
20. He put up an altar there and named it after El, the God of Israel.