Liber Genesis

Genesis, chapter 33, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 33 Vulgate

   1 Elevans autem Iacob oculos suos vidit venientem Esau et cum eo quadringentos viros; divisitque filios Liae et Rachel ambarumque famularum.
   2 Et posuit utramque ancillam et liberos earum in principio, Liam vero et filios eius in secundo loco, Rachel autem et Ioseph novissimos.
   3 Et ipse praegrediens adoravit pronus in terram septies, donec appropinquaret ad fratrem suum.
   4 Currens itaque Esau obviam fratri suo amplexatus est eum; stringensque collum eius osculatus est eum, et fleverunt.
   5 Levatisque oculis, vidit mulieres et liberos earum et ait: "Qui sunt isti tibi?" Respondit: "Liberi sunt, quos donavit mihi Deus servo tuo"
   6 Et appropinquantes ancillae et filii earum incurvati sunt.
   7 Accessit quoque Lia cum liberis suis et, cum similiter adorassent, extremi Ioseph et Rachel adoraverunt.
   8 "Quaenam sunt, inquit, istae turmae, quas obvias habui?" Respondit: "Ut invenirem gratiam coram domino meo"
   9 At ille: "Habeo, ait, plurima, frater mi; sint tua tibi"
   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.
   11 Suscipe, quaeso, benedictionem, quae allata est tibi; quia Deus misertus est mihi, et habeo omnia" Et, cum compelleret illum, suscepit
   12 et ait: "Gradiamur simul, eroque socius itineris tui"
   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.
   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"
   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"
   16 Reversus est itaque illo die Esau itinere suo in Seir.
   17 Et Iacob venit in Succoth, ubi, aedificata sibi domo et fixis tentoriis pro gregibus suis, appellavit nomen loci illius Succoth (id est Tabernacula).
   18 Transivitque Iacob incolumis ad urbem Sichem, quae est in terra Chanaan, cum veniret de Paddanaram; et habitavit iuxta oppidum.
   19 Emitque partem agri, in qua fixerat tabernaculum suum, a filiis Hemmor patris Sichem centum argenteis.
   20 Et erexit ibi altare et vocavit illud: "Deus est Deus Israel"

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.
   2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
   3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.
   4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
   5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
   6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
   7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
   8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.
   9 And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
   10 And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
   11 Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
   12 And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
   13 And he said unto him, My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and herds with young are with me: and if men should overdrive them one day, all the flock will die.
   14 Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
   15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
   16 ¶ So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.
   17 And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
   18 ¶ And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.
   19 And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for an hundred pieces of money.
   20 And he erected there an altar, and called it El-elohe-Israel.