Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept for joy.

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In The King James Version

And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

In Context

10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, he went over and rolled away the stone from the well so Laban's sheep could drink.

12(He had told her that he was a relative of her father, Rebekah's son.) She ran and told her father what had happened.

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Cross References

Genesis 27:26Afterwards he said to Isaac, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”

Genesis 33:4Esau ran over to him and hugged him. He put his arms around his neck and kissed him. The two of them wept.

Genesis 45:2But he cried so loudly that the Egyptians could hear him, and they told Pharaoh's household about it.

Exodus 4:27The Lord had told Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the desert.” So Aaron went and met Moses at the mountain of God and greeted him with a kiss.

Romans 16:16Greet one another affectionately. All the churches of Christ send their greetings 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 →

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