Genesis 36:1-7

Esau's Family

1 These are the family records of Esau (that is, Edom).^[a]

2 Esau took his wives from the Canaanite women: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite,^[b] Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter^[c] of Zibeon the Hivite;

3 and Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.^[d]

4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

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

6 Esau took his wives, sons, daughters, and all the people of his household, as well as his herds, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan; he went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

7 For their possessions were too many [for them] to live together, and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.

Genesis 36:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 36

This chapter gives us a genealogical account of Esau's family, of his wives and sons, with whom he removed from Seir, Ge 36:1-10; of his sons' sons, or grandsons, who were dukes in the land of Edom, Ge 36:11-19; after which is inserted a genealogy of Seir the Horite, into whose family Esau married, and of his children, and the dukes among them, Ge 36:20-30; then follows a list of the kings of Edom, before there were any in Israel, Ge 36:31-39; and the chapter is closed with a brief narration of the dukes of Esau, according to their families, Ge 36:40-43.

Footnotes

• [a] Gn 25:30
• [b] Gn 26:34
• [c] Sam, LXX read Anah son
• [d] Gn 28:9