The Brothers Meet: Genesis 33:1-17

Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men.

The moment Jacob had dreaded for twenty years. Esau—the brother he had cheated, the hunter who had vowed to kill him—approaching with an army.

So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.

Even now, calculating. The least-loved in front, the most-loved protected in the rear. If slaughter came, Rachel and Joseph might escape.