Genesis 36:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.”
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BSBPD
“So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“and Esau dwelleth in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Genesis 36:8 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 14:6and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- Genesis 25:30He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
- Genesis 32:3Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Genesis 32:4He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
- Genesis 36:1This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
- Genesis 36:19All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.
- Genesis 36:43Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.
- Deuteronomy 2:5Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.
- Joshua 24:4and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- 1 Samuel 14:47After Saul had assumed the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—the Moabites, the Ammonites, the Edomites, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he routed them.
- 1 Chronicles 4:42And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir
- 2 Chronicles 20:10And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.
- 2 Chronicles 20:23The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had made an end to the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
- Ezekiel 35:2“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
- Obadiah 1:1This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom— We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—
- Obadiah 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
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