Genesis 29:11
Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.
BSB
ASV
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
KJV
And Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.
GLAPHYRA ON GENESIS, 4.4 (444)
In addition Rachel is interpreted as a "sheep of God." And some consider her to be with good reason a symbol of the church among the nations. She is also the sheep of Christ, mixed in the ancient folds, and finally received in the fold of the Savior. Therefore he said, "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold, them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."
Jacob kissed Rachel - A simple and pure method by which the primitive inhabitants of the earth testified their friendship to each other, first abused by hypocrites, who pretended affection while their vile hearts meditated terror, (see the case of Joab), and afterwards disgraced by refiners on morals, who, while they pretended to stumble at those innocent expressions of affection and friendship, were capable of committing the grossest acts of impurity. And lifted up his voice - It may be, in thanksgiving to God for the favor he had shown him, in conducting him thus far in peace and safety.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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Genesis 33:4Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
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Then Joseph threw his arms around his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept as they embraced.
I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.
So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still in the distance, his father saw him and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him, and…
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh’s household soon heard of it.
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Genesis 43:30Joseph hurried out because he was moved to tears for his brother, and he went to a private room to weep.
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And he turned away from them and wept. When he turned back and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.
Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares…
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Exodus 4:27Meanwhile, 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.
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Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
