As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things.

As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,

But Esau ran to meet Jacob and embraced him; he threw his arms around his neck and kissed him. And they wept.

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

‘About this time next year,’ Elisha said, ‘you will hold a son in your arms.’

‘No, my lord!’ she objected. ‘Please, man of God, don’t mislead your servant!’

And he said, “At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son.” And she said, “No, my lord, O man of God; do not lie to your servant.”

They are drenched by mountain rains
and hug the rocks for lack of shelter.

They are wet with the rain of the mountains
and cling to the rock for lack of shelter.

Cherish her, and she will exalt you;
embrace her, and she will honour you.

Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will honor you if you embrace her.

Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman
and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Fools fold their hands
and ruin themselves.

The fool folds his hands and eats his own flesh.

His left arm is under my head,
and his right arm embraces me.

His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me!

His left arm is under my head
and his right arm embraces me.

His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me!

Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple
now lie on ash heaps.

Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.

He took a little child whom he placed among them. Taking the child in his arms, he said to them,

And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them,

And he took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.

And he took them in his arms and blessed them laying his hands on them.

Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms round him. ‘Don’t be alarmed,’ he said. ‘He’s alive!’

But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”