Genesis 33:5

The Passion Translation

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he said to Jacob, “Who are all these coming behind you?” Jacob replied, “These are the children, your niece and nephews, whom God has so graciously given your servant.”

Cross References

Psalm 127:3

Children are God’s love-gift; they are heaven’s generous reward.

Isaiah 8:18

Behold—here I stand, and the children whom the Lord Yahweh has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel, sent from the Lord Almighty, Commander of Angel Armies, who is enthroned on Mount Zion!

Genesis 48:9

“They are the sons that God has graciously given me here,” Joseph said to his father. “Please bring them closer,” he said, “so that I may bless them.”

Hebrews 2:13

And, “My confidence rests in God!” And again he says, “Here I am, one with the children Yahweh has given me.”

Ruth 4:13

So Boaz and Ruth married, and they became one as husband and wife. Yahweh opened Ruth’s womb, and she bore a son.

Genesis 30:2

Jacob became furious with Rachel and said, “Am I God? He’s the one keeping you from bearing children!”

Genesis 33:6

Then the maidservants came forward with their children and bowed low before Esau.