Genesis 33:2

World English Bible (2000)

He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

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  • Gen 29:30 : 30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.
  • Gen 30:22-24 : 22 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. 23 She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach." 24 She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."
  • Gen 37:3 : 3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors.
  • Mal 3:17 : 17 They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.

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  • Gen 33:5-8
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    5 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

    6 Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.

    7 Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

    8 Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."

  • 1 Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and the two handmaids.

  • Gen 35:23-24
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    23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.

    24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • 19 The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

  • Gen 29:16-17
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    16 Laban had two daughters. The name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

    17 Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and attractive.

  • Gen 48:12-14
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    12 Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.

    13 Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near to him.

    14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.

  • 33 Laban went into Jacob's tent, into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two female servants; but he didn't find them. He went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

  • Gen 32:16-20
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    16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

    17 He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'

    18 Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"

    19 He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.

    20 You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."

  • 3 He himself passed over in front of them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

  • 4 Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,

  • Gen 48:17-18
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    17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head.

    18 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head."

  • 25 It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.

  • 17 Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,

  • 28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • 42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

  • 33 They sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth, and the men marveled one with another.

  • 14 Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

  • 2 For Judah prevailed above his brothers, and of him came the prince; but the birthright was Joseph's:)

  • 26 Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the firstborn.

  • 29 Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her handmaid.

  • 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

  • Gen 30:3-4
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    3 She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."

    4 She gave him Bilhah her handmaid as wife, and Jacob went in to her.

  • 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

  • 2 This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

  • 24 Laban gave Zilpah his handmaid to his daughter Leah for a handmaid.

  • 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third generation. The children also of Machir, the son of Manasseh, were born on Joseph's knees.

  • 11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.