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Genesis 33 · Grade 5

Reconciliation

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Genesis 33 resolves the twenty-year conflict between Jacob and Esau. Jacob, still cautious, arranges his family by order of favor, which reveals that his household still has problems. Yet he no longer hides behind them. He goes ahead and bows seven times, a gesture of humble submission. The one who had received the blessing be lord over your brothers now calls himself Esau's servant.

Esau runs to embrace Jacob, falls on his neck, and kisses him, and they weep together. Whatever Esau had planned, God had changed his heart. Jacob's words are striking: I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God. Having just seen God's face at Peniel and been spared, he now sees grace in his brother's face. Reconciliation with God and reconciliation with others belong together (Matthew 5:23-24).

Jacob presses Esau to accept his gift, using the word blessing: Please take the gift that I brought to you. In a sense, Jacob was returning what he had taken. Jacob then declines to travel with Esau and settles near Shechem. He buys land, as Abraham did, and builds an altar to El-Elohe-Israel, claiming the God of Abraham and Isaac as his own God under his new name.

Show What You Know

  1. What does Jacob's arrangement of his family reveal?

  2. How did Jacob's humble bowing reverse the stolen blessing?

  3. What connection does Jacob draw between Peniel and Esau's face?

  4. Why might Jacob's word blessing for his gift be meaningful?

  5. How did Jacob show he claimed God as his own?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

JacobaltarEsauGod
  1. Genesis 33 resolves the twenty-year conflict between Jacob and .
  2. , still cautious, arranges his family by order of favor, which reveals that his household still has problems.
  3. Whatever Esau had planned, had changed his heart.
  4. He buys land, as Abraham did, and builds an to El-Elohe-Israel, claiming the God of Abraham and Isaac as his own God under his new name.

Think About It

  1. Matthew 5:23-24 links worship with making peace. Why does God care so much about how we treat others?

  2. What does it look like to make things right after you have wronged someone?

Memory Verse

Please take the gift that I brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough.” He urged him, and he took it.

Genesis 33:11 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for today's Bible story. Help me to . Amen.

Take It Home

For families: talk about these together.

  • What can you do when it is hard to say sorry?
  • How can you show kindness to someone you argued with?
  • How can you thank God when a hard meeting goes well?

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