Mwanzo 33
1 Yakobo akainua macho akamwona Esau akija na watu wake 400, kwa hiyo akawagawanya watoto kati ya Lea, Raheli na wale watumishi wake wawili wa kike.
And Jacob lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, Esau is coming, and with him four hundred men; and he divides the children to Leah, and to Rachel, and to the two maidservants;
2 Akawaweka wale watumishi wa kike na watoto wao mbele, Lea na watoto wake wakafuata, Raheli na Yosefu wakaja nyuma.
and he sets the maidservants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
3 Yeye mwenyewe akatangulia mbele na kusujudu mara saba alipomkaribia ndugu yake.
And he himself passed over before them, and bows himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing near to his brother,
4 Lakini Esau akamkimbilia Yakobo kumlaki na kumkumbatia, akamwangukia shingoni na kumbusu. Nao wakalia.
and Esau runs to meet him, and embraces him, and falls on his neck, and kisses him, and they weep;
5 Esau akainua macho akawaona wale wanawake na watoto. Akauliza, “Hawa uliofuatana nao ni nani?” Yakobo akamjibu, “Ni watoto ambao Mungu amempa mtumishi wako kwa neema.”
and he lifts up his eyes, and sees the women and the children, and says, “What [are] these to you?” And he says, “The children with whom God has favored your servant.”
6 Kisha wale watumishi wa kike na watoto wao wakakaribia na kusujudu.
And the maidservants draw near, they and their children, and bow themselves;
7 Kisha Lea na watoto wake wakaja na kusujudu. Mwisho wa wote wakaja Yosefu na Raheli, nao pia wakasujudu.
and Leah also draws near, and her children, and they bow themselves; and afterward Joseph has drawn near with Rachel, and they bow themselves.
8 Esau akauliza, “Una maana gani kuhusu makundi hayo yote niliyokutana nayo?” Akasema, “Ni ili kupata kibali machoni pako, bwana wangu.”
And he says, “What to you [is] all this camp which I have met?” And he says, “To find grace in the eyes of my lord.”
9 Lakini Esau akamwambia, “Ndugu yangu, tayari nina wingi wa mali. Ulivyo navyo viwe vyako mwenyewe.”
And Esau says, “I have abundance, my brother, that which you have, let it be for yourself.”
10 Yakobo akasema, “La hasha! Tafadhali, kama nimepata kibali machoni pako, upokee zawadi hii kutoka kwangu. Kwa maana kuuona uso wako, ni kama kuuona uso wa Mungu, kwa kuwa umenipokea kwa takabali kubwa.
And Jacob says, “No, please, now if I have found grace in your eyes, then you have received my present from my hand, because that I have seen your face, as the seeing of the face of God, and you are pleased with me;
11 Tafadhali ukubali zawadi iliyoletwa kwako, kwa kuwa Mungu amenineemesha na ninavyo vyote ninavyohitaji.” Kwa sababu Yakobo alisisitiza, Esau akapokea.
please receive my blessing which is brought to you, because God has favored me, and because I have all [things]”; and he presses on him, and he receives [it],
12 Ndipo Esau akasema, “Na tuendelee na safari, nitakuwa pamoja nawe.”
and says, “Let us journey and go on, and I go on before you.”
13 Lakini Yakobo akamwambia, “Bwana wangu unajua kwamba watoto ni wachanga na kwamba ni lazima nitunze hawa kondoo wake na ngʼombe wanaonyonyesha. Wakipelekwa kwa haraka hata kama ni kwa siku moja tu, wanyama wote watakufa.
And he says to him, “My lord knows that the children [are] tender, and the suckling flock and the herd [are] with me; when they have beaten them one day, then all the flock has died.
14 Hivyo bwana wangu umtangulie mtumishi wako, wakati mimi nikija polepole kwa mwendo wa makundi yaliyo mbele yangu na mwendo wa watoto, mpaka nifike kwa bwana wangu huko Seiri.”
Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I lead on gently, according to the foot of the work which [is] before me, and to the foot of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir.”
15 Esau akamwambia, “Basi na niwaache baadhi ya watu wangu pamoja nawe.” Yakobo akauliza, “Lakini kwa nini ufanye hivyo, niache tu nipate kibali machoni pa bwana wangu.”
And Esau says, “Please let me place with you some of the people who [are] with me”; and he said, “Why [is] this? I find grace in the eyes of my lord.”
16 Hivyo siku hiyo Esau akashika njia akarudi Seiri.
And Esau turns back on that day on his way to Seir;
17 Pamoja na hayo, Yakobo akaenda Sukothi, mahali alipojijengea makazi kwa ajili yake na mabanda kwa ajili ya mifugo yake. Hii ndiyo sababu sehemu ile inaitwa Sukothi.
and Jacob has journeyed to Succoth, and builds a house for himself, and has made shelters for his livestock, therefore he has called the name of the place Succoth.
18 Baada ya Yakobo kutoka Padan-Aramu, alifika salama katika mji wa Shekemu huko Kanaani na kuweka kambi yake karibu na mji.
And Jacob comes safe [to the] city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, in his coming from Padan-Aram, and encamps before the city,
19 Akanunua kiwanja kutoka kwa wana wa Hamori, baba wa Shekemu, kwa bei ya vipande mia vya fedha, ambapo alipiga hema lake.
and he buys the portion of the field where he has stretched out his tent, from the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for one hundred kesitah;
20 Pale akajenga madhabahu na kupaita El-Elohe-Israeli.
and he sets up there an altar, and proclaims at it God—the God of Israel.
