Jacob looks up and sees Esau coming—four hundred men behind him. He arranges his family, bows seven times as he approaches. "But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him. And they wept." After twenty years of fear, expecting revenge, Jacob receives grace. Esau refuses the gifts at first: "I have enough, my brother." Jacob insists: "To see your face is like seeing the face of God." The one Jacob feared becomes the one who shows him mercy. Reconciliation, unexpected and undeserved. They part in peace. Jacob heads to Canaan. The brothers go their separate ways.

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