Genesis 36:3-13

3 and Basemath, daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
4 Adah gave Esau Eliphaz; Basemath had Reuel;
5 Oholibamah had Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
6 Esau gathered up his wives, sons and daughters, and everybody in his household, along with all his livestock - all the animals and possessions he had gotten in Canaan - and moved a considerable distance away from his brother Jacob.
7 The brothers had too many possessions to live together in the same place; the land couldn't support their combined herds of livestock.
8 So Esau ended up settling in the hill country of Seir (Esau and Edom are the same).
9 So this is the family tree of Esau, ancestor of the people of Edom, in the hill country of Seir.
10 The names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz, son of Esau's wife Adah; Reuel, son of Esau's wife Basemath.
11 The sons of Eliphaz: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.
12 (Eliphaz also had a concubine Timna, who had Amalek.) These are the grandsons of Esau's wife Adah.
13 And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah - grandsons of Esau's wife Basemath.

Genesis 36:3-13 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.

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