And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.
WEB
Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
YLT
and Esau runneth to meet him, and embraceth him, and falleth on his neck, and kisseth him, and they weep;
DBT
And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentGenesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
- Author
- Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
- Date
- Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)