Genesis 33:6

The personal maids and their children came over and bowed down.

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In The King James Version

Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

In Context

5Then Esau looked around at the women and children. “Who are these people with you?” he asked. “They are the children God graciously gave your servant,” Jacob replied.

7Then Leah and her children came over and bowed down. Lastly Joseph and Rachel came over and bowed down.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 33:6-16

5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant. 6 Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves. 7 And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves. 8 And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord. 9… Read the whole commentary →

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