Genesis 33:4
Then 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.
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In The King James Version
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
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Cross References
Genesis 32:28And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
Genesis 45:14Then, weeping, he took Benjamin in his arms, and Benjamin himself was weeping on Joseph's neck.
1 Samuel 20:41And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater.
Job 2:12And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.
Proverbs 16:7When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 33:2-5
Jacob's Interview with Esau. ( b. c. 1739.) 1 And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids. 2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost. 3 And he passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. 4 And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell… Read the whole commentary →