“And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.”
Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob. The departure of Esau from Canaan parallels the departure of Lot from Abraham in Genesis 13 — the lesser line moves to make room for the greater. The application: the separation that allows the covenant line to inherit is accomplished by the non-covenant line's departure, not by force.
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