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• When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, "We reached your brother Esau. He is now coming to meet you, accompanied by four hundred men." (Genesis 32, 7)

• Save me, I pray, from the hand of my brother Esau! Otherwise I fear that when he comes he will strike me down and slay the mothers and children. (Genesis 32, 12)

• After passing the night there, Jacob selected from what he had with him the following presents for his brother Esau: (Genesis 32, 14)

• To the servant in the lead he gave this instruction: "When my brother Esau meets you, he may ask you, 'Whose man are you? Where are you going? To whom do these animals ahead of you belong?' (Genesis 32, 18)

• Then you shall answer, 'They belong to your brother Jacob, but they have been sent as a gift to my lord Esau; and Jacob himself is right behind us.'" (Genesis 32, 19)

• He himself went on ahead of them, bowing to the ground seven times, until he reached his brother. (Genesis 33, 3)

• "I have plenty," replied Esau; "you should keep what is yours, brother." (Genesis 33, 9)

• God said to Jacob: "Go up now to Bethel. Settle there and build an altar there to the God who appeared to you while you were fleeing from your brother Esau." (Genesis 35, 1)

• There he built an altar and named the place Bethel, for it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother. (Genesis 35, 7)

• Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock comprising various animals and all the property he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to the land of Seir, out of the way of his brother Jacob. (Genesis 36, 6)

• Judah said to his brothers: "What is to be gained by killing our brother and concealing his blood? (Genesis 37, 26)

• Rather, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, instead of doing away with him ourselves. After all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed. (Genesis 37, 27)