Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Then he positioned the women servants and their children first, then Leah and her children next, and then Rachel and Joseph after them.
New American Standard Bible
He put the maids and their children
King James Version
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Holman Bible
He put the female slaves and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.
A Conservative Version
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.
American Standard Version
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
Amplified
He put the maids and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.
Bible in Basic English
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
Darby Translation
and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.
Julia Smith Translation
And he set the maids and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.
King James 2000
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he put the female slaves and their children first, then Leah and her children next, then Rachel with Joseph last.
Modern King James verseion
And he put the slave women and their children first, and Leah and her children afterward, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he put the maidens and their children foremost, and Lea and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
NET Bible
He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.
New Heart English Bible
He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
The Emphasized Bible
and put the handmaids and their children first, - and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph next;
Webster
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
World English Bible
He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
Youngs Literal Translation
and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Themes
Children » Parents, duty to » Partiality toward
Conscience » Instances of » Of jacob, after he defrauded esau
Home » Parental indulgence » Partiality of parents
Joseph » Son of jacob » His father's favorite child
Parents » Examples of fathers' love » Partiality
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 33:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Meets Esau And Settles At Shechem
1 When Jacob looked off in the distance, there was Esau coming toward him, accompanied by 400 men! So Jacob divided Leah's children, Rachel, and the children of the two servants into separate groups. 2 Then he positioned the women servants and their children first, then Leah and her children next, and then Rachel and Joseph after them. 3 Then he went out to meet Esau, passing in front of all of them, and bowed low to the ground seven times as he approached his brother.
Cross References
Genesis 29:30
Jacob also married Rachel, since he loved her. He served Laban another full seven years' work for Rachel.
Genesis 30:22-24
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,
Genesis 37:3
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.
Malachi 3:17
"They'll be mine," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "in the day when I prepare my treasured possession. I'll spare them, just as a man spares his own son who serves him.