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Genesis 33:4
Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.
Genesis 33:4 · Bible in Basic English
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Genesis 33:4 in other translations
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
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In context
1 Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.
2 He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
3 And he himself, going before them, went down on his face to the earth seven times till he came near his brother.
4 Then Esau came running up to him, and folding him in his arms, gave him a kiss: and the two of them were overcome with weeping.
5 Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.
6 Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.
7 And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.
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