Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18
Jacob arranged his family in order of preference: handmaids first, Leah next, Rachel and Joseph last and safest. Then he went ahead of all of them, bowing seven times on the
way to his brother. The man who grabbed Esau's heel at birth bows to him seven times on the road back.
Esau runs. That one verb is the whole chapter. Twenty years of fury, and he runs. He embraces Jacob, falls on his neck, and they both weep. Moses gives us no record of what was said in
that moment: only the running, the embrace, the weeping, and the kiss. Some reunions exceed the vocabulary available to them.
Jacob says afterward: I have seen your face as the face of God. The connection to Peniel the night before is deliberate. Both encounters were terrifying in anticipation. Both produced
grace. Thread 1 used Esau's running feet to show Jacob what mercy looks like from the receiving end.
Jacob plants himself in Shechem, buys a field, and builds an altar. He names it El-Elohe-Yisrael, God, the God of Israel. The name he received at the Jabbok is now the name of his
altar. He is back in the land.
Esau runs, and the feared reunion is the grace Jacob did not deserve, and Jacob reads his brother's running face as the face of God.
וַ יָּ רָץ עֵ שָׂ ו לִקְרָאתוֹ (vayyarots Esav liqratho): Esau ran to meet him: ruts, to run;
the same verb Jesus uses in the parable of the prodigal son when the father sees the son far off and runs; Thread 1 works here through a man's legs
threads t1 · t4 · see Luke 15:20 · Genesis 32:30 · Romans 12:18