Who inherited Isaac's material wealth?

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Isaac was around 100 years old and thought he was about to die (Genesis 27:2). He blessed Jacob instead of his first-born son Esau with the inheritance.

Soon, Jacob fled to Laban in Padan Aram, where he worked for 20 years (Genesis 31:38,41).

During Jacob's absence from his brother. Esau probably took over Isaac's movable properties, slaves, animals, etc. He started to settle down south of his father in Seir/Edom (Ge 32:3), east of the Joran River.

When Jacob returned and met Esau at Jabbok River, Esau was a wealthy man. He had 400 men with him. Still, Jacob gave Esau hundreds of animals as gifts. Esau returned to Seir.

Jacob settled in Succoth (Genesis 33:17), north of Hebron, where Isaac lived.

Some decades later, Ge 35:

27 Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned. 28 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years. 29 And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

There was no mention of how Isaac distributed his wealth when he died. He might not have had great material wealth when he died. At this time, Jacob and Esau were 120 years old (Ge 25:26, 35:28). Jacob probably did not insist on being the legal firstborn over property rights. He probably took over his father's fixed assets in Hebron while Esau got the movable ones. Esau returned to Edom outside of the promised land where his descendants dominated. There was no mention that the two brothers bickered over their inheritances, like who was the real first-born son. They probably agreed on a compromise. Their material inheritances from Isaac were not that important. The point was that Jacob inherited God's promises to Abraham. In the eyes of God, Esau had sold it to him.