Genesis 33:7

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

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In The King James Version

And Leah also with her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

In Context

6Then the slave-girls with their children came up and bowed down to the ground.

8Esau asked, ‘What do you mean by all this company which I met?’ Jacob answered, ‘To win your friendship, my lord.’

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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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