Genesis 36:8

World English Bible (2000)

Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

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  • Gen 32:3 : 3 Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
  • Gen 36:1 : 1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
  • Gen 36:19-20 : 19 These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs. 20 These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
  • Deut 2:5 : 5 don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
  • Josh 24:4 : 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
  • 1 Chr 4:42 : 42 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.
  • 2 Chr 20:10 : 10 Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;
  • 2 Chr 20:23 : 23 For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.
  • Ezek 35:2-7 : 2 Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, 3 and tell it, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment. 4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am Yahweh. 5 Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end; 6 therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. 7 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.
  • Mal 1:3 : 3 but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."
  • Gen 14:6 : 6 and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

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  • Gen 36:9-10
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    9This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

    10these are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, the son of Adah, the wife of Esau; and Reuel, the son of Basemath, the wife of Esau.

  • Gen 36:1-2
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    1Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

    2Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;

  • Gen 36:42-43
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    42chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

    43chief Magdiel, and chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

  • Gen 36:19-21
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    19These are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these are their chiefs.

    20These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

    21Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.

  • Gen 33:16
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    16So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

  • Gen 36:4-7
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    4Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.

    5Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

    6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

    7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.

  • Deut 2:12
    76%

    12The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)

  • Gen 32:3
    74%

    3Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

  • 1 Chr 1:34-35
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    74%

    34Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

    35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.

  • Josh 24:4
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    4I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

  • Gen 36:40
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    40These are the names of the chiefs who came from Esau, according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief Timna, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth,

  • Num 24:18
    72%

    18Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

  • Gen 25:30
    72%

    30Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am famished." Therefore his name was called Edom.

  • Deut 2:4-5
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    72%

    4Command the people, saying, 'You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

    5don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

  • Gen 36:30-31
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    30chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.

    31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

  • Deut 2:22
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    22as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:

  • Gen 27:39
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    39Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

  • Gen 36:15
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    15These are the chiefs of the sons of Esau: the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz,

  • Gen 25:27
    70%

    27The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

  • Gen 36:17
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    17These are the sons of Reuel, Esau's son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau's wife.

  • Deut 2:8
    70%

    8So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

  • Jer 49:10
    70%

    10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is destroyed, and his brothers, and his neighbors; and he is no more.

  • Gen 27:41
    70%

    41Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."