Judah said, “...Here we are, slaves to my lord, both we and the one in whose hand the goblet was found.” And Joseph said, “Far be it from me to do this! The man in whose hand the goblet was found, he shall become my slave, and you, go up in peace to your father.”
This is the lineage of Jacob – Joseph, seventeen years old, was tending the flock with his brothers, assisting the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. Bilhah and Zilpah were the maidservants of Rachel and Leah who married Jacob and gave birth to some of the twelve tribes.
And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is actually coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.” And Jacob was greatly afraid...Rashbam, the grandson of Rashi, insists that it was out of respect for Jacob that Esau came to meet him with so
Jacob took one of the stones of the place and put it at his head and he lay down in that place, and he dreamed... The symbolism is powerful, Jacob gathers hard stones, lays his head on them and dreams a dream. The hard stones - the harsh reality of Jacob’s life - give birth
