Genesis 33:2
Good News Translation
He put the concubines and their children first, then Leah and her children, and finally Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

New Revised Standard Version
He put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all.

Contemporary English Version
The two servant women, Zilpah and Bilhah, together with their children went first, followed by Leah and her children, then by Rachel and Joseph.

New American Bible
putting the maidservants and their children first, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.

Rachel.

Genesis 29:30 And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years.

Genesis 30:22-24 The Lord also remembering Rachel, heard her, and opened her womb. . . .

Genesis 37:3 Now Israel loved Joseph above all his sons, because he had him in his old age: and he made him a coat of divers colours.

Malachi 3:17 And they shall be my special possession, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I do judgment: and I will spare them, as a man spareth his son that serveth him.

Context
Jacob Meets Esau
1And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids. 2And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.3And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times, until his brother came near.…
Cross References
Genesis 33:1
And Jacob lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming, and with him four hundred men: and he divided the children of Lia and of Rachel, and of the two handmaids.

Genesis 33:3
And he went forward and bowed down with his face to the ground seven times, until his brother came near.

Jeremiah 50:12
Your mother is confounded exceedingly, and she that bore you is made even with the dust: behold she shall be the last among the nations, a wilderness unpassable, and dry.

Genesis 33:1
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