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

¹Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

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

²He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

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

³He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

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

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

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

⁵He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

⁶Varandakadzi ndokuswedera, ivo nevana vavo, vakakotama.

⁶Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

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

⁷Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

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

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

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

⁹Esau said, “I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours.”

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.

¹⁰Jacob said, “Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.

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

¹¹Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

¹²Ndokuti: Ngatisimuke tifambe, uye ndichakutungamirira.

¹²Esau said, “Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you.”

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

¹³Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

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

¹⁴Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir.”

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

¹⁵Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

¹⁶Esau ndokudzoka zuva iroro, akae­nda Seiri.

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

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

¹⁷Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth. succoth means shelters or booths.

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

¹⁸Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

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

¹⁹He bought the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

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

²⁰He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel. El Elohe Israel means “God, the God of Israel” or “The God of Israel is mighty.”