Genealogy of Esau
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📚Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. 2 📚Esau took his wives from 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, the sister of Nebajoth.4 📚And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Bashemath bore Reuel, 5 📚and Aholibamah bore Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
6 📚And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his cattle, and all his animals, and all his goods which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from the presence of his brother Jacob. 7 📚For their possessions were too many for them to live together, and the land where they were foreigners could not sustain them because of their livestock. 8 📚So Esau lived in mount Seir 📖. Esau is Edom.
9 📚And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir;
10 📚These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
11 📚And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 📚Easu's son Eliphaz had a concubine, Timna, and she bore Amalek 📖 to Eliphaz. These were the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.
13 📚And these were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Esau’s wife Bashemath.
14 📚And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: she bore to Esau Jeush, Jaalam, and Korah.
15 📚These were the chiefs among the offspring of Esau. The sons of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau: chief Teman 📖, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, 16 📚chief Korah, chief Gatam, and chief Amalek. These were the chiefs who came from Eliphaz in the land of Edom, these were the sons of Adah.
17 📚And these were the sons of Reuel Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah. These are the chiefs that came from Reuel in the land of Edom, these were the sons of Esau’s wife Bashemath.
18 📚And these were the sons of Esau’s wife Aholibamah: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah. These were the chiefs descended from Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau’s wife.
19 These were the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these were their chiefs.
20 📚These were the sons of Seir the Horite, who lived in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
36:20 See Gen 14:6. The Horites were a people living in the area before Abraham came from Ur of Chaldea.⚜
21 Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These were the chiefs of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
22 📚And the children of Lotan were Hori and Hemam. And Lotan’s sister was Timna.
23 📚And the children of Shobal were these: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.
24 📚And these were the children of Zibeon: both Aiah and Anah. This was that Anah who found the mules in the wilderness, as he tended the donkeys of his father Zibeon.
25 📚And the children of Anah were these: Dishon and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
26 📚And these were the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
27 📚The children of Ezer were these: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
28 📚The children of Dishan were these: Uz 📖 and Aran.
29 📚These were the chiefs that came from the Horites: chief Lotan, chief Shobal, chief Zibeon, chief Anah, 30 📚chief Dishon, chief Ezer, chief Dishan. These were the chiefs who came from Hori, among their chiefs in the land of Seir.
31 📚And these were the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before any king 📖 reigned over the children of Israel. 32 And Bela the son of Beor reigned in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
33 📚And Bela died, and Jobab, the son of Zerah of Bozrah, reigned in his place.
34 📚And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his place.
35 And Husham died, and Hadad, the son of Bedad, who attacked Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Avith.
36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his place.
37 📚And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his place.
38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his place.
39 📚And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his place. And the name of his city was Pau, and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.
36:2-3 Note on polygamy at Gen 30:1.⚜
40 📚And these are the names of the chiefs descended from Esau, according to their families, according to their places, by their names: chief Timnah, chief Alvah, chief Jetheth, 41 chief Aholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon, 42 chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar, 43 📚chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land of their possession. This was Esau, the father of the Edomites.