Genesis 33

¹Jacob lifted his eyes and saw, and behold, Esau was coming, and with him were four hundred men; so he divided the children with Leah and with Rachel and with the two maidservants.

²And he placed the maidservants and their children first and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and her Joseph last.

³And he went ahead of them and prostrated himself to the ground seven times, until he came close to his brother.

⁴And Esau ran toward him and embraced him, and he fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

⁵And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and he said, ‘Who are these to you?’ And he said, ‘The children with whom God has favored your servant.’

⁶And the maidservants and their children drew near and prostrated themselves.

⁷And Leah and her children drew near and prostrated themselves, and after [them], Joseph and Rachel drew near and prostrated themselves.

⁸And he said, ‘What is to you [the purpose of] all this camp that I have met?’ And he said, ‘To find favor in my master's eyes.’

⁹But Esau said, ‘I have plenty, my brother; let what you have remain yours.’

¹⁰Thereupon Jacob said, ‘Please no! If indeed I have found favor in your eyes, then you shall take my gift from my hand, because I have seen your face, which is like seeing the face of an angel, and you have accepted me.

¹¹Now take my gift, which has been brought to you, for God has favored me [with it], and [because] I have everything.’ He prevailed upon him, and he took [it].

¹²Thereupon, he said, ‘Travel and we will go, and I will go alongside you.’

¹³And he said to him, ‘My master knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the cattle, which are raising their young, depend upon me, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

¹⁴Now, let my master go ahead before his servant, and I will move [at] my own slow pace, according to the pace of the work that is before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my master, to Seir.’

¹⁵Thereupon Esau said, ‘Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.’ But he said, ‘Why [do] that? May I find favor in my master's eyes.’

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

¹⁷And Jacob traveled to Succoth and built himself a house, and for his cattle he made booths; therefore he named the place Succoth.

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

¹⁹And he bought the part of the field where he had pitched his tent from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitas.

²⁰There he erected an altar, and he named it ‘God is the God of Israel.’

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Age Jacob?

Jacob is 84.5 when he arrives in Shechem: In genesis 31 when he left Laban Jacob was 83 in AM 2191. If 18 months passes in Succoth he will be 84.5 when he arrives in Shechem.