36Genesis 36

The Descendants of Esau

1These are the descendants of Esau, also called Edom.Select Genesis 36:1

2Esau married Canaanite women: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah son of Zibeon the Hivite;Select Genesis 36:2

3and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.Select Genesis 36:3

4Adah bore Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;Select Genesis 36:4

5and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All these sons were born to Esau in the land of Canaan.Select Genesis 36:5

6Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the people of his house, along with all his livestock and all the possessions he had gotten in the land of Canaan, and went away from his brother Jacob to another land.Select Genesis 36:6

7He left because the land where he and Jacob were living was not able to support them; they had too much livestock and could no longer stay together.Select Genesis 36:7

8So Esau lived in the hill country of Edom.Select Genesis 36:8

9These are the descendants of Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.Select Genesis 36:9

13Esau's wife Adah bore him one son, Eliphaz, and Eliphaz had five sons: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. And by another wife, Timna, he had one more son, Amalek. Esau's wife Basemath bore him one son, Reuel, and Reuel had four sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.Select Genesis 36:13

14Esau's wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah son of Zibeon, bore him three sons: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.Select Genesis 36:14

15These are the tribes descended from Esau. Esau's first son Eliphaz was the ancestor of the following tribes: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz,Select Genesis 36:15

16Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. These were all descendants of Esau's wife Adah.Select Genesis 36:16

17Esau's son Reuel was the ancestor of the following tribes: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were all descendants of Esau's wife Basemath.Select Genesis 36:17

18The following tribes were descended from Esau by his wife Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah: Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.Select Genesis 36:18

19All these tribes were descended from Esau.Select Genesis 36:19

The Descendants of Seir

21The original inhabitants of the land of Edom were divided into tribes which traced their ancestry to the following descendants of Seir, a Horite: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.Select Genesis 36:21

22Lotan was the ancestor of the clans of Hori and Heman. (Lotan had a sister named Timna.)Select Genesis 36:22

23Shobal was the ancestor of the clans of Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.Select Genesis 36:23

24Zibeon had two sons, Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was taking care of his father's donkeys.)Select Genesis 36:24

26Anah was the father of Dishon, who was the ancestor of the clans of Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. Anah also had a daughter named Oholibamah.Select Genesis 36:26

27Ezer was the ancestor of the clans of Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.Select Genesis 36:27

28Dishan was the ancestor of the clans of Uz and Aran.Select Genesis 36:28

30These are the Horite tribes in the land of Edom: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.Select Genesis 36:30

The Kings of Edom

39Before there were any kings in Israel, the following kings ruled the land of Edom in succession: Bela son of Beor from Dinhabah Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah Husham from the region of Teman Hadad son of Bedad from Avith (he defeated the Midianites in a battle in the country of Moab) Samlah from Masrekah Shaul from Rehoboth-on-the-River Baal Hanan son of Achbor Hadad from Pau (his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab)Select Genesis 36:39

43Esau was the ancestor of the following Edomite tribes: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, and Iram. The area where each of these tribes lived was known by the name of the tribe.Select Genesis 36:43