He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
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He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
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And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
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And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Genesis 33:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 29:30 He went in also to Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him seven more years.
- Genesis 30:22-24 God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb. She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” She named him Joseph, saying, “May Yahweh add another son to me.”
- 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 tunic of many colors.
- Malachi 3:17 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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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their…
Gen 33:2 And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Ver. 2. He put the handmaids, &c.] Of children and friends, some may be better beloved than others: and whereas all cannot be saved or helped, the dearest may be chiefly cared for.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Placing his best beloved in the last and safest…
Placing his best beloved in the last and safest place.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,....…
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost,.... In the first division, as being less honourable and less beloved by him:
and Leah and her children after; still according to the degree of honour and affection due unto them; Leah being a wife that was imposed and forced upon him:
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and Rachel and Joseph hindermost; being most beloved by him, and therefore most careful of them; Rachel being his principal and lawful wife, and who had the greatest share in his affection, and Joseph his only child by her.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 2. He put the handmaids and their children…
Verse 2. He put the handmaids and their children foremost] There is something so artificial in this arrangement of Jacob's family, that it must have had some peculiar design. Was Jacob still apprehensive of danger, and put those foremost whom he least esteemed, that if the foremost met with any evil, those who were behind might escape on their swift beasts? Ge 32:7-8. Or did he intend to keep his choicest treasure to the last, and exhibit his beautiful Rachel and favourite Joseph after Esau had seen all the rest, in order to make the deeper impression on his mind?
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Gen 33:2-3. He put Rachel and Joseph hinder-most —…
Gen 33:2-3. He put Rachel and Joseph hinder-most — Giving those that were dearest to him most opportunity to escape. He passed over before them — Exposing himself to the first and greatest danger for the security of his wives and children. He bowed himself to the ground — Thus doing obeisance to Esau as an elder brother, though he feared him as an enemy.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain MEETING OF JACOB AND ESAU, Gen_33:1-16.
MEETING OF JACOB AND ESAU, Gen_33:1-16.
2. Rachel and Joseph hindermost — Jacob evidently arranged his companies according to his special affection for each; for the handmaids least, for Rachel most.
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