“Please, let my lord pass before his servant, and I will advance slowly, according to the pace of the property that is before me and according to the pace of the children, until I will come to my lord, to Seir” (Genesis 33:14). “Please, let my lord pass before his servant” – He [Esau] said to him: ‘Do you seek that we will be partners with you in your world?’ He [Jacob] said to him: “Please, let my lord pass before his servant.”
He said to him: ‘Do you not fear my ministers, my governors, and my officers?’ He said to him: “I will advance slowly [le’iti]” – I will walk slowly in accordance with my possessions, just as it says: “The water of the Shiloaḥ that flows slowly [le’at]” (Isaiah 8:6). Alternatively, I will go with a covered face, just as it says: “Behold, it is wrapped [luta] in the cloth” (I Samuel 21:10). “Until I will come to my lord, to Seir” – Rabbi Abbahu said: We reviewed the entire Bible and did not find that Jacob ever went to Esau at Mount Seir.
Is it possible that Jacob, [who] was truthful, [nevertheless] deceived him? When, then, did he go to him? In the future. That is what is written: “Saviors will ascend Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau” (Obadiah 1:21).