Genesis 36:8

And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

In Context

7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.

9And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

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Cross References

Genesis 14:6and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

Genesis 32:3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

Genesis 36:1Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).

Genesis 36:43duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau the father of the Edomites.

Joshua 24:4And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

1 Chronicles 4:42And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir; having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

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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