Genesis 33:4
Then Esau ran to meet his brother, and embraced him: and clasping him fast about the neck, and kissing him, wept.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 32:28But he said: Thy name shall not be called Jacob, but Israel: for if thou hast been strong against God, how much more shalt thou prevail against men?
Genesis 43:34Taking the messes which they received of him: and the greater mess came to Benjamin, so that it exceeded by five parts. And they drank, and were merry with him.
Genesis 45:14And falling upon the neck of his brother Benjamin, he embraced him and wept: and Benjamin in like manner wept also on his neck.
1 Samuel 20:41And when the boy was gone, David rose out of his place, which was towards the south, and falling on his face to the ground, adored thrice: and kissing one another, they wept together, but David more.
Job 2:12And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out they wept, and rending their garments they sprinkled dust upon their heads towards heaven.
Proverbs 16:7When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.
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 →