Show Don't Tell: Genesis 33:1-20

Instead of saying "Jacob and Esau reconciled," watch the approach. Jacob sees Esau coming—four hundred men behind him. He arranges his family: servants first, then Leah and her children, Rachel and Joseph last. The most loved, the most protected. Jacob himself goes ahead, bowing to the ground seven times. Watch Esau's response: he runs. Not to attack—to embrace. "Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept." Twenty years of fear, dissolved in seconds. Esau tries to refuse the gifts; Jacob insists: "To see your face is like seeing the face of God." The brothers part in peace. Jacob settles near Shechem. The reunion he dreaded becomes grace he didn't deserve.