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All it took was a command from Yakob to split off the half of the livestock and servants and depart the lands north of Mount Nebo where Yishak had grazed his flocks from the time his father Abraham died.

In the three and sixtieth year of the Covenant Yishak died, and Esau buried him in the tomb that held the bones of his grandfather. Esau left his mother Rebekah in the keeping of his chief steward, then sojourned with his flocks to search out his brother and tell him of the passing of their father.

For three generations of men Bat-El and Elyon carried out a test to see if one clan on Earth could maintain a covenant with the elohim without any intervention. The eloah named Chemah, who was enfleshed as a lan named Israel, made a journey to the Land of Promise to see the place with is own eyes. Israel took little thought for his personal safety. Bat-El had said Yakob was more the son of his mother than the son of his father, a man who preferred the womanly arts of whispering and plotting to more masculine action on the field of the hunt or battle.

When Israel caught up with Yakob he was preparing to cross the Jordan River. There Yakob had sent messengers to meet his brother Esau and mention that he had a lot of spare animals, hopefully to smooth over any hard feelings Esau might still have from losing the Birthright.

The messengers returned with a report that Esau was coming out to meet Yakob with four hundred men, so he divided his caravan in twain. If Esau smote one the other might escape. Yakob prayed to Chokhmah for deliverance, then set aside a portion of his herd as a gift to Esau.

Yakob sent two hundred twenty goats, two hundred twenty sheep, thirty horses, fifty cattle, twenty asses, and ten foals, which his servants took on ahead to Esau. As for Yakob himself, he hung back as a rearguard, not against Esau but against someone else he happened to see.14 Yakob hid himself amid thick vegetation near the place where the Zarqa River merged with the Jordan River. When the stranger approached, unaware of Yakob's presence, Yakob assailed him suddenly and there ensued a bitter fistfight that changed into an epic wrestling match.

The stranger kept grasping Yakob's clothing to hurl him around, so Yakob shed his clothing and fought entirely in the nude. Then Israel saw how Abraham's grandson bore the peculiar mutilation that Elyon had demanded in hyz bid to sabotage Chokhmah's experiment.