So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir. The departure of Esau — the feared brother now a reconciled one — is the completion of the encounter. The four hundred men leave without violence; the reconciliation is complete. The application: the fear that drove twenty years of avoidance, the prayer at Peniel, the seven-fold bowing — all resolved into this simple sentence: Esau started on his way back to Seir.

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