Genesis 29:11
And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.
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In The King James Version
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
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Genesis 27:26And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss.
Genesis 33:4Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.
Genesis 45:2And so loud was his weeping, that it came to the ears of the Egyptians and all Pharaoh's house.
Exodus 4:27And the Lord said to Aaron, Go into the waste land and you will see Moses. So he went and came across Moses at the mountain of God, and gave him a kiss.
Romans 16:16Give one another a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send their love to you.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 29:10-15
Rachel's Humility and Industry. ( b. c. 1760.) 9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them. 10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept. 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and… Read the whole commentary →