¹And Jacob lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he distributed the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants:

¹Zvino Jakove wakasimudza meso ake, akaona, zvino tarira, Esau achiuya nevarume mazana mana vanaye. Akagovera vana kuna Reya nekuna Rakeri nekuvarandakadzi vaviri.

²and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

²Zvino wakaisa varandaka­dzi nevana vavo mberi, naRea nevana vake shure, naRakeri naJosefa pakupe­dzisira.

³And he passed on before them, and bowed to the earth seven times, until he came near to his brother.

³Iye pachake akapfuura mberi kwavo, akakotamira pavhu kanomwe kusvikira asvika pedo nemukuru wake.

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

⁴Esau ndokumhanyira kunomuchingamidza, akamumbundikira, aka­wira pamutsipa wake, ndokumutsvoda; ndokuchema.

⁵And he lifted up his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children that God has graciously given thy servant.

⁵Zvino wakasimudza meso ake akaona vakadzi nevana, akati: Ndivana ani ava vaunavo? Iye ndokuti: Vana Mwari vaakapa muranda wenyu nenyasha dzake.

⁶And the maidservants drew near, they and their children, and they bowed.

⁶Varandakadzi ndokuswedera, ivo nevana vavo, vakakotama.

⁷And Leah also, with her children, drew near, and they bowed. And lastly Joseph drew near, and Rachel, and they bowed.

⁷NaRea nevana vake vakaswedera, vakakotama; pashure Josefa naRakeri vakaswedera, vakakotama.

⁸And he said, What [meanest] thou by all the drove which I met? And he said, To find favour in the eyes of my lord.

⁸Ndokuti: Wakanangei neboka iri rose randasangana naro? Iye ndokuti: Kuti ndiwane nyasha pameso paishe wangu.

⁹And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; let what thou hast be thine.

⁹Esau ndokuti: Ndine zvizhinji, munin'ina wangu, zvaunazvo ngazvive zvako.

¹⁰And Jacob said, No, I pray thee; if now I have found favour in thine eyes, then receive my gift from my hand; for therefore have I seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou hast received me with pleasure.

¹⁰Jakove ndokuti: Kwete! Kana ikozvino ndawana hangu nyasha pameso enyu, gamuchirai chipo changu kubva paruoko rwangu; nekuti naizvozvo ndaona chiso chenyu sechiso chaMwari, mukafara neni.

¹¹Take, I pray thee, my blessing which has been brought to thee; because God has been gracious to me, and because I have everything. And he urged him, and he took [it].

¹¹Gamuchirai henyu chipo changu chinouiswa kwamuri; nekuti Mwari wakandipa nenyasha, uye ndine zvose. Akamugwaririra, kusvikira agamuchira.

¹²And he said, Let us take our journey, and go on, and I will go before thee.

¹²Ndokuti: Ngatisimuke tifambe, uye ndichakutungamirira.

¹³And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die.

¹³Asi wakati kwaari: Ishe wangu unoziva kuti vana vachiri vatete, uye kuti makwai nemombe zvandinazvo zvi­noyamwisa; kana vakazvitinha nesimba zuva rimwe, boka rose richafa.

¹⁴Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant, and I will drive on at my ease according to the pace of the cattle that is before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir.

¹⁴Ishe wangu ngaapinde hake mberi kwemura­nda wake; ini ndichanyatsosesedza sezvazvinogona kufamba basa riri pamberi pangu, nemafambiro evana, kudzimara ndasvika kuna ishe wangu paSeiri.

¹⁵And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the people that are with me. And he said, What need? Let me find favour in the eyes of my lord.

¹⁵Esau ndokuti: Zvino ngandisiye kwauri vamwe vanhu vaneni. Iye akati: Nekuda kwei izvi? Ngandiwane nyasha pameso aishe wangu.

¹⁶And Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

¹⁶Esau ndokudzoka zuva iroro, akae­nda Seiri.

¹⁷And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths. Therefore the name of the place was called Succoth.

¹⁷Zvino Jakove wakapfuurira akaenda Sukoti, akazvivakira imba, akaitira zvipfuwo zvake matanga ane matenga; naizvozvo wakayumidza zita renzvimbo iyo kuti Sukoti.

¹⁸And Jacob came safely [to the] city Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padan-Aram; and he encamped before the city.

¹⁸Jakove ndokusvika akachengetedzeka ku­guta reShekemu, riri panyika yeKanani, pakubva kwake paPadhanaramu; aka­dzika matende ake pamberi peguta.

¹⁹And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread his tent, of the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs.

¹⁹Akatenga chikamu chenyika paakanga adzika tende rake kuvana vaHamori, baba vaShekemu, nemakobiri zana emari.

²⁰And there he set up an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

²⁰Ndokumisapo aritari, akaritumidza kuti Eri-Erohe-Isiraeri.