14. So you go on ahead. I will follow you slowly. I will go slowly enough for the cattle and other animals to be safe and so that my children will not get too tired. I will meet you in Seir.”
15. So Esau said, “Then I will leave some of my men to help you.” But Jacob said, “That is very kind of you, but there is no need to do that.”
16. So that day Esau started on his trip back to Seir.
17. But Jacob went to Succoth. There he built a house for himself and small barns for his cattle. That is why the place was named Succoth.
18. Jacob safely ended his trip from Paddan Aram when he came to the town of Shechem in Canaan. He made his camp in a field near the city.
19. He bought the field where he camped from the family of Hamor, father of Shechem. He paid 100 pieces of silver for it.
20. He built an altar there to honor God. He named the place “El, the God of Israel.”