Genesis 33:4

World English Bible (2000)

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

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  • Gen 45:14-15 : 14 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck. 15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
  • Gen 43:30 : 30 Joseph hurried, for his heart yearned over his brother; and he sought a place to weep. He entered into his room, and wept there.
  • Gen 45:2 : 2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.
  • Gen 46:29 : 29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.
  • Neh 1:11 : 11 Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man." Now I was cup bearer to the king.
  • Job 2:12 : 12 When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn't recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
  • Ps 34:4 : 4 I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
  • Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
  • Prov 21:1 : 1 The king's heart is in Yahweh's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
  • Luke 15:20 : 20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
  • Acts 20:37 : 37 They all wept a lot, and fell on Paul's neck and kissed him,
  • Gen 43:34 : 34 He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank, and were merry with him.

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  • Gen 33:3
    82%

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

  • Gen 45:14-15
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    14 He fell on his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

    15 He kissed all his brothers, and wept on them. After that his brothers talked with him.

  • Gen 29:11-13
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    80%

    11 Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

    12 Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son. She ran and told her father.

    13 It happened, when Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things.

  • Gen 46:29
    78%

    29 Joseph prepared his chariot, and went up to meet Israel, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

  • Gen 33:5
    77%

    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."

  • Gen 27:33-34
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    76%

    33 Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."

    34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."

  • Gen 50:1
    75%

    1 Joseph fell on his father's face, wept on him, and kissed him.

  • Gen 27:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26 His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."

    27 He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

  • Gen 27:38
    74%

    38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

  • Gen 27:30
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    30 It happened, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

  • Gen 48:10
    74%

    10 Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he couldn't see. He brought them near to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

  • Gen 33:1
    73%

    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.

  • Luke 15:20
    73%

    20 "He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

  • Gen 27:41-42
    2 verses
    73%

    41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."

    42 The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob, her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.

  • Gen 27:22
    72%

    22 Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."

  • Gen 33:8
    72%

    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."

  • Gen 33:16
    72%

    16 So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

  • Gen 32:6
    71%

    6 The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."