The force of 400 men that Esau brought with him to meet Jacob in exceeded the 318 men with whom Abraham defeated four kings and rescued Lot in .
The report of that Reuben lay with Bilhah, his father's concubine, and Israel heard of it, is echoed in when Jacob recalled the incident and deprived Reuben of the blessing of the firstborn, because he went up on Jacob's bed and defiled it.