Quotes about Reconciliation
Stay with him for a while, until your brother’s fury subsides—
- Genesis 27:44
until your brother’s rage against you wanes and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send for you and bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
- Genesis 27:45
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
- Genesis 31:27
Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Genesis 32:3
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
- Genesis 32:6
Jacob spent the night there, and from what he had brought with him, he selected a gift for his brother Esau:
- Genesis 32:13
You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
- Genesis 32:20
But Jacob himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
- Genesis 33:3
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
- Genesis 33:4
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
- Genesis 33:5
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
- Genesis 33:7
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
- Genesis 33:8