Genesis 36:8

So Esau, also known as Edom, settled in the hill country of Seir.

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Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

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7He did this because their possessions were too many for them to stay together. The land where they had settled could not support them because of their livestock.

9These were the descendants of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

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Cross References

Genesis 14:6and the Horites in their hill country of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is near the desert.

Genesis 32:3Jacob sent messengers on ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, in the region of Edom.

Genesis 36:1These were the descendants of Esau (also called Edom).

Genesis 36:43Magdiel, and Iram. These were the clan heads of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Joshua 24:4Then to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

1 Chronicles 4:42From them, from the sons of Simeon, five hundred men went to Mount Seir with Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, as their leader.

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 →

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