He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
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He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, 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 hindermost.
And he put the maidservants and their children first, and Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph after them.
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He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
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 hindermost.
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.
And he put the maides, and their children formost, and Leah, and her children after, and Rahel, and Ioseph hindermost.
And he put both the handmaids and their children foremost: and Lia and her children in the second place: and Rachel and Joseph last.
and he setteth the maid-servants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
and he sets the maidservants and their children first, and Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
Then he put the female servants and their children in front, followed by Leah and her children, and followed by Rachel and Joseph last of all.
And he put the maidservants and their children first, and Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph after them.
and he put the maidservants and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindmost.
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after, 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 hindermost.
He placed the two personal maids with their children first, then Leah and her children, and Rachel and Joseph last.
He put the servants and their children in front, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph at the back.
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
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First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לֵאָ֤ה Leah H3812 occurs in 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 23 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 15 Hebrew tokens and 23 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Genesis 33:2 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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וַיָּ֧שֶׂם אֶת הַשְּׁפָח֛וֹת וְאֶת יַלְדֵיהֶ֖ן רִֽאשֹׁנָ֑ה וְאֶת לֵאָ֤ה וִֽילָדֶ֨יהָ֙ אַחֲרֹנִ֔ים וְאֶת רָחֵ֥ל וְאֶת יוֹסֵ֖ף אַחֲרֹנִֽים
He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ποιέω ὁ δύο παιδίσκη καί ὁ υἱός αὐτός ἐν πρῶτος καί λεια καί ὁ παιδίον αὐτός ὀπίσω καί ραχηλ καί ιωσηφ ἔσχατο
And he put the two handmaidens and their children with the first, and Lea and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
וְשַׁוִּי יָת לְחֵינָתָא וְיָת בְּנֵיהֶן קַדְמָאִין וְיָת לֵאָה וּבְנָהָא בַּתְרָאִין וְיָת רָחֵל וְיָת יוֹסֵף בַּתְרָאִין
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
וְשַׁוִי יַת לְחֵינָתָא הִינָן וּבְנֵיהֶן בְּקַדְמֵיתָא אֲרוּם אָמַר אִלוּ אָתֵי עֵשָו לְחַבְּלָא בְּרֻבַיָא לְמֶעֱבַד זְנוּ בִּנְשַׁיָא יַעֲבֵּיד בְּאִילֵן וּבְגוֹ פִּתְגָמָא הָדֵין נְקוּם וְנַגַח עִמֵיהּ קְרָבָא וְיַת לֵאָה וְרִיבָהָא בַּתְרָאִין וְיַת רָחֵל וְיַת יוֹסֵף בַּתְרָאִין
and placed the concubines and their sons foremost; for he said, If Esau come to destroy the children and abuse the women, he will do it with them, and meantime we will arise and encounter him in fight; and Leah and her children after, and Rahel and Joseph after them.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 15 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Lêʼâh (“Leah”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Genesis 33:2 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.
Radak
Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)
Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.