So, after Jacob finishes his tirade Laban basically says everything belongs to him so why did Jacob think he should take it? But I think he knows that they wanted to go with Jacob and he says that they should make a deal. Jacob takes a stone and sets it up like a pillar and tells his relatives to get more stones and make a large heap of stones. Laban names it one thing and Jacob another. But they both agree that it's like a stone boundary between them and they agree not to cross it. They had a meal and spent the night then parted.
Jacob goes on with his group and sends scouts to his brother. They return and tell him that Esau is coming with 400 men. Uh ohhh. Jacob gets scared that Esau is coming to kill him because he still wants him dead. So he prays to God that He will save him since he's supposed to have descendents like the sand of the sea. He decides to give his brother a gift of animals from his flock: 200 female goats and 20male goats, 200 ewes and 20 rams, 30 female camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 male donkeys. Jacob sends servants with every animal group and tells them to say that these are gifts from Jacob to Esau.
That night Jacob gets up and sends his household across the stream and he is alone. He wrestles with a man until daybreak. When the man saw that Jacob him pinned he told him to let him go. But Jacob wanted the man to bless him before he let him go. So the man asks his name and Jacob tells him and the man says his name will now be Israel because he has struggled with God and men and he has won. During the struggle, the man smacked Jacob's hip so that he limped.
When Jacob sees Esau coming he goes out to meet him and bows down. My guess is that no one is more surprised than Jacob (Israel) that Esau is happy to see him. The two brothers make up for they each have plenty. Jacob asks Esau to allow his company to travel at a slow pace to keep the young healthy, and he agrees.
Dinah the youngest sister of all those boys goes out by herself and is raped by a guy named Shechem who really likes her. I mean - he wants to marry her - likes her. So he begs for her hand in marriage and the brothers agree - if - the entire town will get circumsized. Now all the males in the town get circumsized. But what they don't know is that the brothers aren't interested in allowing them to live no matter what they do since they defiled their sister. So during the third day when the entire male population of the town is sore (naturally) they kill them all. They take their women and children and everything they can their hands on. Jacob is not happy because the other people in the country will be mad at him because of what his sons have done to avenge their sister.
Next read: Genesis 35,36,37:24
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