Genesis 33:4

and Esau runs to meet him, and embraces him, and falls on his neck, and kisses him, and they weep;

Literal Standard Version

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

3And he himself passed over before them, and bows himself to the earth seven times, until his drawing near to his brother,

5and he lifts up his eyes, and sees the women and the children, and says, “What [are] these to you?” And he says, “The children with whom God has favored your servant.”

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Cross References

Genesis 32:28And He says, “Your name is no longer called Jacob, but Israel; for you have reigned with God and with men, and prevail.”

Genesis 43:34and he lifts up gifts from before him to them, and the gift of Benjamin is five hands more than the gifts of all of them; and they drink, indeed, they drink abundantly with him.

Genesis 45:14And he falls on the neck of his brother Benjamin, and weeps, and Benjamin has wept on his neck;

1 Samuel 20:41The youth has gone, and David has risen from Ezel, at the south, and falls on his face to the earth, and bows himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep with one another, until David exerted himself;

Job 2:12and they lift up their eyes from afar and have not discerned him, and they lift up their voice and weep, and each tears his robe, and sprinkle dust on their heads—heavenward.

Proverbs 16:7When a man’s ways please YHWH, even his enemies, || He causes to 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 →

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