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Esau and Jacob separate, amiably we presume. Like Abram and Laban and Isaac and Abimelech before them, they do not have enough room for both families.
This illuminates to the reader that the family of Israel did not mix with her neighbours, preserving the covenant.
Esau has twelve nations. After all the fighting over firstborn birthrights, it appears as though the comparison of two twin brother's families indicate equal blessing in land and family. Even if we know that history does not remain this way, the text does show a balancing of the scales at this point in history.
v28 - The land of Uz is Job's home. Job may have been a descendant of Esau.
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