15. So Esau said, “Then let me leave some of my men with you.”“No, thank you,” said Jacob. “I only want to please you, my master.”
16. So that day Esau started back to Edom.
17. But Jacob went to Succoth. There he built a house for himself. And he made shelters for his animals. That is why the place was named Succoth.
18. Jacob left Northwest Mesopotamia. And he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan. He camped east of the city.
19. He bought a part of the field where he had camped. He bought it from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem for 100 pieces of silver.
20. He built an altar there and named it after God, the God of Israel.