Genesis 33:2
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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.

Lexicon
He put
וַיָּ֧שֶׂם (way·yā·śem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

the maidservants
הַשְּׁפָח֛וֹת (haš·šə·p̄ā·ḥō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8198: Maid, maidservant

and their
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's Hebrew 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

children
יַלְדֵיהֶ֖ן (yal·ḏê·hen)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

in front,
רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה (ri·šō·nāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7223: First, in place, time, rank

Leah
לֵאָ֤ה (lê·’āh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3812: Leah -- 'weary', a wife of Jacob

and her children
וִֽילָדֶ֙יהָ֙ (wî·lā·ḏe·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3206: Something born, a lad, offspring

next,
אַחֲרֹנִ֔ים (’a·ḥă·rō·nîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 314: Hinder, late, last, western

and Rachel
רָחֵ֥ל (rā·ḥêl)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7354: Rachel -- a wife of Jacob

and Joseph
יוֹסֵ֖ף (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

at the rear.
אַחֲרֹנִֽים׃ (’a·ḥă·rō·nîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 314: Hinder, late, last, western


Additional Translations
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph last.

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Lea and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.

and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.

and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
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