Genesis 36:1-8

Esau Moves

1 Now these are the records of the generations of ¹Esau (that is, Edom ).

2 Esau ²took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and ³Oholibamah the daughter of Anah and the ⁴granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

3 also Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.

4 Adah bore ⁵Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel,

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

6 ⁶Then Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his goods which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob.

7 ⁷For their property had become too great for them to live together, and the ⁸land where they ⁹sojourned could not sustain them because * of their livestock.

8 So Esau lived in the hill country of ¹⁰Seir; Esau is ¹¹Edom.

Genesis 36:1-8 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.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 25:30
• 2. Genesis 28:9
• 3. Genesis 36:25
• 4. Genesis 36:24
• 5. 1 Chronicles 1:35
• 6. Genesis 12:5
• 7. Genesis 13:6
• 8. Genesis 17:8; Hebrews 11:9
• 9. 1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalms 39:12
• 10. Genesis 32:3
• 11. Genesis 36:1, 19

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "the souls of his house"
• [b]. Lit "dwell"