Genesis 36:8

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Summary

Genesis 36:8

Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

Mount seir

Bible References

Mount seir

These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to Mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

Now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom you would not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and didn't destroy them;

Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."