“And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.”
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said: we went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him. The report — four hundred men — triggers Jacob's fear. A military force is coming. The reconciliation mission has produced a military response, or at least an ambiguous one. The application: the response to a reconciliation attempt is not always clear. The ambiguity of four hundred men is the source of Jacob's fear.
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