Genesis 33:16: The second half of a parting, and the brothers are not in the same place again

"So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir." One line, and it closes a story that has been running since a birthright was sold for stew. Esau has come a hundred and forty miles north with four hundred men, run to meet his brother, embraced him, wept on his neck, refused the present twice and taken it, offered an escort and been talked out of it. Then he turns round and goes home, the same day. Jacob has just told him, in the two verses before this, that he will follow on slowly and come to him in Seir — and he does not. The next verse has him going the other way, to Succoth, and then to Shechem, and Seir is never mentioned in his movements again. It is the only outright untruth he tells in the reconciliation, and the map is where it shows: the two arrows leave the same spot and do not meet again. The series draws this as the counterpart of Abraham and Lot, and it is the same shape one generation on. There the ground would not carry both households and Lot chose the valley; here the ground would carry both and the brothers choose anyway. Esau's country is already his — the hill country of Seir, the sandstone range down the east of the Arabah, a real nation with a road through it — and at 36:6 he takes everything into it deliberately, for the reason Abram gave Lot. They meet once more, at 35:29, to bury their father. Nothing is said at that funeral, and nothing needs to be.