Genesis 33:6

Then the slave-girls with their children came up and bowed down to the ground.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he said, ‘Who are these with you?’ Jacob answered, ‘The children whom God has so kindly given me.’

7Leah and her children also came and bowed down, and afterward Joseph and Rachel came up and bowed down before Esau.

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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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