11. Please take my present that was brought to you, for God has been generous to me and I have all I need.” When Jacob urged him, he took it.
12. Then Esau said, “Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”
13. But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.
14. Let my lord go on ahead of his servant. I will travel more slowly, at the pace of the herds and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
15. So Esau said, “Let me leave some of my men with you.” “Why do that?” Jacob replied. “My lord has already been kind enough to me.”
16. So that same day Esau made his way back to Seir.
17. But Jacob traveled to Succoth where he built himself a house and made shelters for his livestock. That is why the place was called Succoth.
18. After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.