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Genesis 33:2

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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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  1. Genesis 33:1

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

  2. Genesis 33:3

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

  3. Genesis 33:4

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.