Genesis Chapter 36 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 36:1

Now these are the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).
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BBE Genesis 36:1

Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.
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DARBY Genesis 36:1

And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom.
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KJV Genesis 36:1

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
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WBT Genesis 36:1

Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
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WEB Genesis 36:1

Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (the same is Edom).
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YLT Genesis 36:1

And these `are' births of Esau, who `is' Edom.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Now these are the generations (cf. Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1, etc.) of Esau, - Hairy (vide Genesis 25:25) - which is Edom - Red (vide Genesis 25:30).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXXXVI.THE T?LD?TH ESAU.(1) The generations of Esau.--This toldoth, consisting of Genesis 36:1 to Genesis 37:1, is very remarkable, if it were only for the difficulties with which it abounds, and which have too often been aggravated by the determination of commentators to make Holy Scripture bend to their pre-conceived ideas as to what it ought to be, instead of dutifully accepting it as it is. It begins with an enumeration of Esau's wives, in which the names are different from those given in Genesis 26:34; Genesis 28:9. Next we have the genealogy of Esau, upon the same principle as that whereby the toldoth Ishmael was inserted immediately after the history of Abraham's death (Genesis 25:12-18); but this is followed, in Genesis 36:20-30, by a genealogy of the Horite inhabitants of Mount Seir. Among these Esau dwelt as the predominant power, but nevertheless on friendly terms, for a reason which we shall see hereafter. We next have a list of kings who are said to have reigned in Edom "before there reigned any king over the children of Israel." This is not a prophetical portion of the Bible, but a dry genealogical table, and the attempts made to evade the plain meaning of the words, namely, that at the time when this list of kings was written there were kings in Israel, are painful to read, and can have no other effect than to harden sceptics in unbelief. Of these Edomite kings, it is remarkable that they do not succeed one another by hereditary succession, nor have they the same capital, but seem to belong to a time of anarchy, like that which existed in Israel under the Judges. During this period the Edomites and Horites were fused together, chiefly by conquest (Deuteronomy 2:12; Deuteronomy 2:22), but partly also by the gradual dying out of the inferior race, just as the red man is fading away in North America, and the Maori in New Zealand. Finally, we have a list of the eleven dukes of Edom, "after their places." As these dukes represented tribes or clans, this catalogue is geographical, and as such it is described in Genesis 36:43, and was intended to give the political arrangement of the land at the later date when this addition was made, and when considerable changes had taken place since the time of the first settlement. . . .