Reading for March 14th

Read Genesis 32.1-21
Jacob prepares to meet his brother Esau.
After twenty years of separation, the reader recalls that the last words we heard from Esau were false, "I will kill my brother Jacob (27.41).
Jacob's preparations to meet Esau exhibit great anxiety about whether Esau still carries this threat with him (v. 11).
In vv. 1-2 Angels of God again meet Jacob as he enters Canaan, just as the angels visited him when he left Canaan (28.12).
Jacob names the place Mahanaim, "two camps." because it is God's camp.
Bethel, "house of God," was the place name of the previous encounter with angels (28.19).
In vv. 3-8 Jacob sends gifts to appease his brother his brother Esau.
Jacob hears the ominous news that Esau is coming to meet him with an army of four hundred men
(v. 6).
Jacob has good reason to be greatly afraid and distressed (v. 7).
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