English Standard Version
Genesis 36:8
8So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)
Genesis 36:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
- New International Version (NIV)So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.
- New Living Translation (NLT)So Esau (also known as Edom) settled in the hill country of Seir.
Context of Genesis 36:8
6Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his livestock, all his beasts, and all his property that he had acquired in the land of Canaan. He went into a land away from his brother Jacob. 7For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together. The land of their sojournings could not support them because of their livestock. So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.) 9These are 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, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
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וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב עֵשָׂו֙ בְּהַ֣ר שֵׂעִ֔יר עֵשָׂ֖ו ה֥וּא אֱדֽוֹם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Genesis 36:8
- Genesis 36:20These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- Genesis 14:6and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El-paran on the border of the wilderness.
- Genesis 32:3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,
- Deuteronomy 2:5Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any 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 as a possession.
- Joshua 24:4And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 4:42And some of them, five hundred men of the Simeonites, went to Mount Seir, having as their leaders Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
- 2 Chronicles 20:10And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—
- Ezekiel 35:2"Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
- Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert."
- Genesis 36:1These are the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).
Commentaries on Genesis 36:8
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-43Verses 1-43 - Section XII - Jacob - The History of Esau 2. אהלבמה 'ohŏlı̂ybâmâh Oholibamah, “tent of the high place.” ענה ‛ǎnâh Anah, “answering.” צבעון tsı̂b‛ôn Tsibon, “dyer, colored.” 4. אליפז 'ělı̂yphaz Eliphaz, “God of strength.” רעוּאל re‛û'êl Reuel, “friend of God.” 5. יעוּשׁ ye‛ûsh Jeush, “haste.” יעלם ya‛lâm Jalam, “hiding.” קרח qôrach Qorach, “ice.” 11. תימן têymân Teman, “right-hand man.” אומר 'ômār Omar, “eloquent.” צפו tsephô…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8Esau, like Lot, left for the eastern land (compare 13:5–6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir--This was divinely assigned as his possession (Jos 24:4; De 2:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Genesis 36
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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