“And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these before thee?”
He instructed the one in the lead: when my brother Esau meets you and asks, to whom do you belong, and where are you going, and who owns all these animals in front of you. The instruction prepares the servants for the exact question Esau will ask — the same attention to detail that went into the preparations for deceiving Isaac, now deployed in the service of genuine reconciliation. The application: the same capacity for careful preparation that served deception can serve reconciliation. The preparation is the same; the purpose is different.
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