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So Israel had the answer hy had come to Earth looking for, but there was still the growing matter of the ongoing tussle. As they fought Yakob kept asking, "Who are you?" but Israel refused to say. As the night wore on hy grew dismayed how Yakob proved to be so tenacious.

Israel wrenched Yakob's femur out of its socket at the hip, causing intense torment, but Yakob refused to yield. At dawn Israel, a full cubit taller than Yakob and far more bulky, was at the end of hyz own resources and near exhaustion. Hy commanded Yakob to let hym go.

Yakob said, 'I will not release you until you tell me who you are, and bless me.' His foe said, 'No longer shall men call you Yakob, but Israel, for you have contended with gods and men, and you have prevailed. You have even wrested my name away, and taken it for your own.' Then Yakob unhanded the bruised seraph, nameless now. He had sufficient dark light banked to crack open a fold-door little more than a cubit tall, just enough to wriggle back into Heaven like a maggot, and he never came again any closer than the Earth's moon.

Three of Israel's servants found him beaten and unable to stand, with a dislocated hip. Two of them held him down with a bit between his teeth while the third popped it back in place. With help he was able rejoin his wife but he walked with a limp for the rest of his life.

Esau drew near with his men. Israel stood in front of his people bowed before his brother. And to Israel's everlasting surprise, Esau did not strike him, but rather he embraced and kissed him, and he told him their father was dead, and they both wept. So the great family feud was ended. Yet in truth there had never been a feud, since Esau obtained more than his rightful share Yishak's flocks and servants anyway, and after that he had come to miss his brother.

Israel begged his brother to accept the gift of herd animals he had already sent to him, saying, 'Take them please, my lord, because Chokhmah has dealt graciously with me, and I have enough. More than enough!' And Esau assured Israel that none of his men gave Israel his beating

Esau agreed to go on ahead because Israel's group had children and young animals and he himself had a limp. Both brothers mourned the passing of their father but even so they rejoiced that they had returned to the good terms they had enjoyed in their youth.