331 Then Jacob lifted 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 He put the maids and their children in front , and Leah and her children next , and Rachel and Joseph last . 3 But he himself passed on ahead of them and bowed down to the ground seven times , until he came near to his brother . 4 Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept .
5 He lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children , and said , "Who are these with you?" So he said , " The children whom God has graciously given your servant ." 6 Then the maids came near with their children , and they bowed down . 7 Leah likewise came near with her children , and they bowed down ; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel , and they bowed down . 8 And he said , "What do you mean by all this company which I have met ?" And he said , " To find favor in the sight of my lord ." 9 But Esau said , " I have plenty , my brother ; let what you have be your own." 10 Jacob said , "No , please , if now I have found favor in your sight , then take my present from my hand , for I see your face as one sees the face of God , and you have received me favorably . 11 "Please take my gift which has been brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me and because I have plenty ." Thus he urged him and he took it. 12 Then Esau said , "Let us take our journey and go , and I will go before you." 13 But he said to him, "My lord knows that the children are frail and that the flocks and herds which are nursing are a care to me. And if they are driven hard one day , all the flocks will die . 14 "Please let my lord pass on before his servant , and I will proceed at my leisure , according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children , until e I come to my lord at Seir ." 15 Esau said , "Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But he said , "What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord ."
16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir . 17 Jacob journeyed to Succoth , and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock ; therefore e the place is named e Succoth . 18 Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem , which is in the land of Canaan , when he came from Paddan-aram , and camped before the city . 19 He bought the piece of land where e he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor , Shechem's father , for one hundred pieces of money . 20 Then he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel .
31 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made . And he said to the woman , "Indeed e , has God said , 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden '?" 2 The woman said to the serpent , " From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat ; 3 but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden , God has said , 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die .' " 4 The serpent said to the woman , "You surely will not die ! 5 "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened , and you will be like God , knowing good and evil ."
6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food , and that it was a delight to the eyes , and that the tree was desirable to make one wise , she took from its fruit and ate ; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate . 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened , and they knew that they were naked ; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings . 8 They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day , and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden .
9 Then the Lord God called to the man , and said to him, " Where are you?" 10 He said , " I heard the sound of You in the garden , and I was afraid because I was naked ; so I hid myself."
11 And He said , "Who told you that you were naked ? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat ?" 12 The man said , "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree , and I ate ." 13 Then the Lord God said to the woman , "What is this you have done ?" And the woman said , " The serpent deceived me, and I ate ."
14 The Lord God said to the serpent , " Because you have done this , Cursed are you more than all cattle , And more than every beast of the field ; On your belly you will go , And dust you will eat All the days of your life ; 15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman , And between your seed and her seed ; He shall bruise you on the head , And you shall bruise him on the heel ."
16 To the woman He said , "I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth , In pain you will bring forth children ; Yet your desire will be for your husband , And he will rule over you."
17 Then to Adam He said , "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife , and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying , 'You shall not eat from it'; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life . 18 "Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field ; 19 By the sweat of your face You will eat bread , Till you return to the ground , Because from it you were taken ; For you are dust , And to dust you shall return ."
20 Now the man called his wife's name Eve , because she was the mother of all the living .
21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife , and clothed them.
22 Then the Lord God said , "Behold , the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil ; and now , he might stretch out his hand , and take also from the tree of life , and eat , and live forever "- 23 therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden , to cultivate the ground from which he was taken . 24 So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life .
