Tree of Life Version
Genesis 36:8
8So Esau lived in Mount 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)
- New King James Version (NKJV)So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.
Context of Genesis 36:8
6Now Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters and all the people of his household, as well as his livestock, all his cattle, and all his possessions that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from his brother Jacob. 7For their possessions were too numerous for them to dwell together, and the land where they were residing was unable to support them because of their livestock. So Esau lived in Mount Seir (Esau is Edom). 9So these are the genealogies of Esau, the father of Edom in the hill country of Seir. 10These are the names of Esau’s sons: Eliphaz son of Esau’s wife Adah and Reuel son of Esau’s wife Basemath.
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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 the hill country of Seir as far as El-Paran, which is beside the wilderness.
- Genesis 32:3Then Jacob said when he saw them, “This is God’s camp,” and he named that place Mahanaim.
- Deuteronomy 2:5Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land—not even a footprint—because I have given the hill country of Seir to Esau as a possession.
- Joshua 24:4then to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it as his own, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 4:42About 500 of them from the descendants of Simeon, led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir
- 2 Chronicles 20:10“Now behold, the sons of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir—whose land You did not allow Israel to invade when they came from the land of Egypt, instead they turned aside from them and did not destroy them—
- Ezekiel 35:2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it.
- Malachi 1:3and Esau I hated. I made his hills a wasteland and gave his inheritance to jackals of the wilderness.”
- Genesis 36:1Now these are the genealogies 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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