Then he threw himself on the neck of his brother Benjamin and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

Joseph hurried out, for he was overcome by affection for his brother and was at the point of tears. So he went to his room and wept there.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep loudly.

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

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

Then Joseph hugged his father’s face. He wept over him and kissed him.

Then she died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only that one blessing, my father? Bless me too!” Then Esau wept loudly.

All his sons and daughters stood by him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” So Joseph’s father wept for him.

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.

Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.

They took forty days, for that is the full time needed for embalming. The Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot away; for she thought, “I refuse to watch the child die.” So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably.

‘Tell Joseph this: Please forgive the sin of your brothers and the wrong they did when they treated you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sin of the servants of the God of your father.” When this message was reported to him, Joseph wept.