Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
⛓ Read Genesis 33 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Esau 'ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, and kissed him, and they wept' is the precise gesture-cluster of the father who ran, fell on his neck, and kissed the returning son. Volume and verbal distinctiveness are very high (run + fall on neck + kiss in sequence), and coherence is strong: an estranged brother/son reunion of unexpected mercy.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
Esau 'fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept' is a second close parallel for the falling-on-the-neck, weeping, kissing farewell of v.37.
Medium confidence