THE SONS OF JACOB AT WAR WITH THE SONS OF ESAU

Jacob having been interred with royal pomp, and the
seven days' period of mourning over, the conflict between
the sons of Jacob and the sons of Esau broke out anew. In
the skirmish that had ensued when Esau advanced a claim
upon a place in the Cave of Machpelah, while his brother's
remains still lay unburied, he lost forty of his men, and after
his death fortune favored his sons as little. Eighty of their
followers were slain, while of the sons of Jacob not one was
lost. Joseph succeeded in capturing Zepho the son of
Eliphaz and fifty of his men, and he clapped them in
chains and carried them off to Egypt. Thereupon the rest
of the attacking army led by Eliphaz fled to Mount Seir,
taking with them the headless corpse of Esau, to bury it in