Bible Strands
Genesis 36:4
And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records the births of Esau’s sons through his wives Adah and Basemath during the patriarchal period in Canaan.
The words — יָלְדָה (Yal.dah) and וַתֵּלֶד (va./Te.led) both mean “she bore,” marking the literal act of childbirth for each wife.
The thread — The same sons appear in 1 Chronicles 1:35, while Reuel later functions as a patriarchal figure in Exodus 2:18 and Eliphaz reappears as a friend of Job in Job 2:11.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of how biblical genealogies preserve tribal lineages without commentary, requiring the reader to track covenantal succession through recorded births.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
Cross-references
- 1 Chronicles 1:35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
- Exodus 2:18 When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
- Job 2:11 Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.
- Numbers 10:29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”