Jacob and Esau Meet Genesis 31, Genesis 33
Jacob and Esau
Meet Genesis 31, Genesis 33
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Jacob lived among his mother's
people for many, many years.
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He had a large family. Jacob had
herds of sheep goats cattle donkeys and camels.
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One day, God came to Jacob again and
told him to return to the land of his father
Isaac.
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Rebekah was mother of Jacob she had
died. Jacob hadn't seen Isaac his father in twenty years.
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Jacob wanted to go back to old home.
However, Jacob was afraid to meet his older brother Esau.
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Jacob had an idea. He called his
servants and asked them take some
animals to as a gift.
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There were two hundred twenty sheep
and two hundred twenty goats, there were thirty mother camels and their young
there were fifty cattle and thirty donkeys. Then Jacob went to meet Esau.
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Gift is Animals were used as money
and often given as gift because they were so important without animals families
had no way to feed themselves.
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When Esau saw his younger brother Jacob
he ran to him and put his arms around him.
·
The brothers wept tears of joy. Each
had gone his own way just as God had meant them to now God had brought them
together again.
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