Esau in Mount Seir

6. a land away from his brother Jacob The Syr. reads "the land of Seir," which is possibly the original reading. The Lat. abiit in alteram regionem. The present passage ignores the previous mention of Esau's residence in "the land of Seir, the field of Edom," Genesis 32:3. Seir was the mountainous country between the Dead Sea and the Elamitic Gulf.

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