Genesis 36:8
They went to live in the Seir hilly area.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 14:6They also defeated the Hor people-group in the hilly area of Seir as far as El-Paran near the desert.
Genesis 32:3Jacob told some of the men to go ahead of him to his older brother Esau, who was living in Seir, the land where the descendants of Edom lived.
Genesis 36:1◄Here is/I will now give you► a list of the descendants of Esau, whose other name was Edom.
Joshua 24:4When Isaac grew up, I enabled him to have twin sons, Jacob and Esau. I enabled Esau to live in the hilly area in Seir region, but many years later Jacob and his sons and their families went down to live in Egypt.
1 Chronicles 4:42Ishi’s four sons Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel led 500 other descendants of Simeon and attacked the people who were living in the hilly area of the Edom region.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 36:2-9
The Generations of Esau. ( b. c. 1780.) 1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. 2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; 3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. 4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; 5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. 6 And Esau took his… Read the whole commentary →