12. Then Esau said, “Let’s move on, and I’ll go ahead of you.”
13. Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing sheep and cattle. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.
14. Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
15. Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me, my lord.”
16. That day Esau started on his way back to Seir,
17. but Jacob went on to Succoth. He built a house for himself and stalls for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.
18. After Jacob came from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at Shechem in the land of Canaan and camped in front of the city.