Liber Genesis, 33

1. Elevans autem Iacob oculos suos vidit venientem Esau et cum eo quadringentos viros; divisitque filios Liae et Rachel ambarumque famularum.

1. And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and four hundred men with him. So he divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids.

2. Et posuit utramque ancillam et liberos earum in principio, Liam vero et filios eius in secundo loco, Rachel autem et Ioseph novissimos.

2. And he put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

3. Et ipse praegrediens adoravit pronus in terram septies, donec appropinquaret ad fratrem suum.

3. He himself went on before them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

4. Currens itaque Esau obviam fratri suo amplexatus est eum; stringensque collum eius osculatus est eum, et fleverunt.

4. But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

5. Levatisque oculis, vidit mulieres et liberos earum et ait: “Qui sunt isti tibi?”. Respondit: “Liberi sunt, quos donavit mihi Deus servo tuo”.

5. And when Esau raised his eyes and saw the women and children, he said, "Who are these with you?" Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

6. Et appropinquantes ancillae et filii earum incurvati sunt.

6. Then the maids drew near, they and their children, and bowed down;

7. Accessit quoque Lia cum liberis suis et, cum similiter adorassent, extremi Ioseph et Rachel adoraverunt.

7. Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down; and last Joseph and Rachel drew near, and they bowed down.

8. “Quaenam sunt, inquit, istae turmae, quas obvias habui?”. Respondit: “Ut invenirem gratiam coram domino meo”.

8. Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob answered, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

9. At ille: “Habeo, ait, plurima, frater mi; sint tua tibi”.

9. But Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; keep what you have for yourself."

10. Dixit Iacob: “Noli ita, obsecro; sed, si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis, accipe munusculum de manibus meis; sic enim vidi faciem tuam quasi viderim vultum Dei, et mihi propitius fuisti.

10. Jacob said, "No, I pray you, if I have found favor in your sight, then accept my present from my hand; for truly to see your face is like seeing the face of God, with such favor have you received me.

11. Suscipe, quaeso, benedictionem, quae allata est tibi; quia Deus misertus est mihi, et habeo omnia”. Et, cum compelleret illum, suscepit

11. Accept, I pray you, my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough." Thus he urged him, and he took it.

12. et ait: “Gradiamur simul, eroque socius itineris tui”.

12. Then Esau said, "Let us journey on our way, and I will go before you."

13. Dixit Iacob: “Nosti, domine mi, quod parvulos habeam teneros et oves et boves fetas mecum; quas si plus in ambulando fecero laborare vel una die, morientur cuncti greges.

13. But Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and that the flocks and herds giving suck are a care to me; and if they are overdriven for one day, all the flocks will die.

14. Praecedat dominus meus ante servum suum; et ego sequar paulatim secundum gressum pecorum ante me et secundum gressum parvulorum, donec veniam ad dominum meum in Seir”.

14. Let my lord pass on before his servant, and I will lead on slowly, according to the pace of the cattle which are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Se'ir."

15. Respondit Esau: “Oro te, ut de populo, qui mecum est, saltem socii remaneant viae tuae”. “Non est, inquit, necesse; hoc uno indigeo, ut inveniam gratiam in conspectu domini mei”.

15. So Esau said, "Let me leave with you some of the men who are with me." But he said, "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

16. Reversus est itaque illo die Esau itinere suo in Seir.

16. So Esau returned that day on his way to Se'ir.

17. Et Iacob venit in Succoth, ubi, aedificata sibi domo et fixis tentoriis pro gregibus suis, appellavit nomen loci illius Succoth (id est Tabernacula).

17. But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and made booths for his cattle; therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18. Transivitque Iacob incolumis ad urbem Sichem, quae est in terra Chanaan, cum veniret de Paddanaram; et habitavit iuxta oppidum.

18. And Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, on his way from Paddan-aram; and he camped before the city.

19. Emitque partem agri, in qua fixerat tabernaculum suum, a filiis Hemmor patris Sichem centum argenteis.

19. And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.

20. Et erexit ibi altare et vocavit illud: “Deus est Deus Israel”.

20. There he erected an altar and called it El-El'ohe-Israel.