1-Chronicles - 1:35



35 The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah.

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The sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Rahuel, Jehus, Ihelom, and Core.

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The sons of Esau; (i) Eliphaz, Reuel, and Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
(i) These were born from three different mothers, read (Genesis 36:4).

The sons of Esau,.... The firstborn of Isaac; his posterity are named in this and the two following verses, as in Genesis 36:1 only it should be observed, that Timna, 1-Chronicles 1:36 is not the name of a man, but was the concubine of Eliphaz, the eldest son of Esau, and the mother of Amalek, Genesis 36:12, and so in the Arabic version it is read,"and Timna, which was the concubine of Eliphaz, the son of Esau, bare him Amalek;''and so the Alexandrian copy of the Septuagint.

The posterity of Esau and Seir. - An extract from Genesis 36:1-30. 1-Chronicles 1:35. The five sons of Esau are the same who, according to Genesis 36:4., were born to him of his three wives in the land of Canaan. יעוּשׁ is another form of יעישׁ, Genesis 36:5 (Kethibh).

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