Genesis 31 - 33

Jacob has become very rich in Haran and the brothers of his wives have become jealous, so when God tells him to return to Canaan, he obeys. Rachel and Leah are not hesitant to leave their Father, but Jacob didn't want to tell him they were leaving. They left while Laban was away shearing his sheep, but not before Rachel stole her father's idols. They had a three-day head start on Laban when he began to pursue them.
Although Laban was not a believer in Jacob's God, this God also spoke to Laban while he was in pursuit and told him to be careful what he said to Jacob. This tells me God is able to speak to anyone and to control anyone he chooses. Therefore, Laban is very diplomatic when he confronts Jacob. Laban's main anger is directed toward the theft of his household gods.
Not knowing his beloved Rachel was the thief, Jacob angrily told his father-in-law to go ahead and search his camp for his gods. Then he pronounces a death sentence on anyone found with the idols. Rachel matches her father trick for trick. She has placed the idols in her camel's saddle on which she was sitting in her tent. Telling her father she was menstruating stopped him from searching her, and the idols go unfound.
Then it was Jacob's turn to be angry. He let his father-in-law have it for all the wrongs over all the years. They made an agreement to part ways and never cross the line into each other's territory again. With his angry, conniving father-in-law behind him, Jacob turns his attention to his next obstacle, his brother Esau.
Jacob sends messengers to his brother to let him know he is returning home. The messengers come back to say Esau is coming to meet him. Jacob begins to quake with fear. Still a schemer, Jacob divides his people and property, so that one group may survive an attack. Then he turns to God in prayer. Prayer should have been his first thought, but his faith is progressing. Then Jacob separates out gifts of livestock to send ahead of him to Esau--still scheming and hedging his bets. Then he sends his immediate family and his personal possessions across the Jabbok River while he stayed behind. Now he is hiding behind his family.
Left alone, however, he has a lot of time to think, and Jacob wrestles with God, both
mentally and physically. Jacob refused to give in, so God had to cripple him, just as He does us when we refuse to humble ourselves. Jacob demands a blessing from God before letting Him go, and gets it in the form of a new name, Israel, as a symbol of his being a changed man. Israel means, “He struggled with God and men and overcame.” After that, Jacob walked with a limp.
At the beginning of Chapter 33, the account of Jacob’s meeting with Esau ensues. Esau had four hundred men with him. He looked ready for a fight. Nevertheless, his emotions for his own flesh and blood brother overcame him as they met, and he opened his heart and his arms. After meeting Jacob’s family, Esau politely declines the gifts Jacob sent ahead to him. However, Jacob is insistent.
Still not completely trusting his brother, the heel-catcher didn’t want to travel with Esau, so he used the excuse the young children and animals couldn’t travel as fast as Esau and his army. Then he lied to his brother, telling him he would come to him at Seir, while he did not intend to do so. As soon as Esau was out of sight, Israel changed course and crossed the Jordan River, where he bought some land from the natives. So God promised the land to the Israelites, they bought the land, and later, they would fight for it. Indeed, they are still fighting for it.