Genesis 33:2

Genesis chapter 33 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

Context

v.1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

v.2This passage

v.3And he himself passed over before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 37:3

    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.

  • Genesis 29:30

    And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

  • Genesis 30:22

    And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

  • Malachi 3:17

    And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, even mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.