Bible Strands
Genesis 36:8
So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator records Esau’s relocation after his flocks and Jacob’s flocks exhausted the land’s capacity, following their earlier reconciliation.
The words — וַיֵּשֶׁב (va.ye.shev) = and he dwelt or settled; עֵשָׂו הוּא אֱדוֹם ('esav hu' 'edom) = Esau, that is Edom, functioning as a standard biblical identifier linking a patriarch’s name to a region or people.
The thread — This geographic foundation appears in Genesis 32:3, is targeted in Ezekiel 35:2, and is condemned in Malachi 1:3.
Why it lands — The text documents a historical separation that establishes the Edomites’ territory, requiring the reader to observe how familial division precedes national identity.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Cross-references
- Genesis 32:3 Jacob sent messengers ahead of him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.
- Malachi 1:3 but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
- Ezekiel 35:2 “Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,
- Genesis 14:6 and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- Genesis 36:1 This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).
- Genesis 36:19 All these are the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and they were their chiefs.
- Deuteronomy 2:5 Do 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 24:4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 4:42 And five hundred of these Simeonites led by Pelatiah, Neariah, Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, went to Mount Seir
- 2 Chronicles 20:10 And 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. So Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.