Genesis 29:11 “Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.”

Genesis 29:11

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And Iaakob kissed Rahel, and lift vp his voyce and wept.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And Jacob kisseth Rachel, and lifteth up his voice, and weepeth,

Bible in Basic English

And weeping for joy, Jacob gave Rachel a kiss.

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Cross references

“and wept”

Genesis 33:4 Genesis 43:30 Genesis 45:2 Genesis 45:14 Genesis 45:15

Genesis 33:4 · BSB

Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.

Genesis 43:30 · BSB

Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.

Genesis 45:2 · BSB

But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.

Genesis 45:14 · BSB

Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.

Genesis 45:15 · BSB

Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept over them. And afterward his brothers talked with him.

Also

Romans 16:16 Exodus 18:7 Exodus 4:27 Genesis 29:13 Genesis 27:26

Romans 16:16 · BSB

Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send you greetings.

Exodus 18:7 · BSB

So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

Exodus 4:27 · BSB

Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Genesis 29:13 · BSB

When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.

Genesis 27:26 · BSB

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

12He told Rachel that he was Rebekah’s son, a relative of her father, and she ran and told her father.

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