Genesis 29:11

29:11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly. ¹ 

Genesis 45:15

45:15 He kissed all his brothers and wept over them. After this his brothers talked with him.

Genesis 50:1

The Burials of Jacob and Joseph

50:1 Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. ²  He wept over him and kissed him.

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¹ tn Heb “and he lifted up his voice and wept.” The idiom calls deliberate attention to the fact that Jacob wept out loud.

² tn Heb “fell on.” The expression describes Joseph’s unrestrained sorrow over Jacob’s death; he probably threw himself across the body and embraced his father.