Genesis 36:1-11

1 hae sunt autem generationes Esau ipse est Edom

2 Esau accepit uxores de filiabus Chanaan Ada filiam Elom Hetthei et Oolibama filiam Anae filiae Sebeon Evei

3 Basemath quoque filiam Ismahel sororem Nabaioth

4 peperit autem Ada Eliphaz Basemath genuit Rauhel

5 Oolibama edidit Hieus et Hielom et Core hii filii Esau qui nati sunt ei in terra Chanaan

6 tulit autem Esau uxores suas et filios et filias et omnem animam domus suae et substantiam et pecora et cuncta quae habere poterat in terra Chanaan et abiit in alteram regionem recessitque a fratre suo Iacob

7 divites enim erant valde et simul habitare non poterant nec sustinebat eos terra peregrinationis eorum prae multitudine gregum

8 habitavitque Esau in monte Seir ipse est Edom

9 hae sunt generationes Esau patris Edom in monte Seir

10 et haec nomina filiorum eius Eliphaz filius Ada uxoris Esau Rauhel quoque filius Basemath uxoris eius

11 fueruntque filii Eliphaz Theman Omar Sephu et Gatham et Cenez

Genesis 36:1-11 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.