Genesis 36:6

_AND ESAU TOOK HIS WIVES, AND HIS SONS, AND HIS DAUGHTERS, AND ALL THE PERSONS OF HIS HOUSE, AND HIS CATTLE, AND ALL HIS BEASTS, AND ALL HIS SUBSTANCE, WHICH HE HAD GOT IN THE LAND OF CANAAN; AND WENT INTO THE COUNTRY FROM THE FACE OF HIS BROTHER JACOB._ Esau ... went into the country from the face - literally, a country, without any certain prospect of a settlement. The Septuagint translators, who seem to have had a different reading in the Hebrew text, render this clause-`and went ek tees gees Chanaan, from the land of Canaan.' In the King James Version something appears wanting to complete the sense and accordingly Knobel, Delitzsch, and others are of opinion that the word 'Seir' or 'Edom' has dropped out of the text. OF HIS BROTHER JACOB. This does not mean that he had remained in Canaan until his brother Jacob's return to that country, and then was driven out; for it appears ...

6._And went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob_. Moses does not mean that Esau departed purposely to give place to his brother; for he was so proud and ferocious, that he never would have allowed himself to seem his brother’s inferior. But Moses, without regard to Esau’s design, commends the secret providence of God, by which he was driven into exile, that the possession of the land might remain free for Jacob alone. Esau removed to Mount Seir, through the desire of present advantage, as is elsewhere stated. Nothing was less in his mind than to provide for his brother’s welfare; but God directed the blind man by his own hand, that he might not occupy that place in the land which he had appointed for his own servant. Thus it often happens that the wicked do good to the elect children of God, contrary to their own intention; and while their hasty cupidity pants for present...

Verse Genesis 36:6. _ESAU TOOK HIS WIVES, C._] So it appears that Esau and Jacob dwelt together in Canaan, whither the former removed from Seir, probably soon after the return of Jacob. That they were on the most friendly footing this sufficiently proves and Esau shows the same dignified conduct as on other occasions, in leaving Canaan to Jacob, and returning again to Mount Seir; certainly a much less fruitful region than that which he now in behalf of his brother voluntarily abandoned....

- Section XII - Jacob - The History of Esau 2. אהלבמה _'ohŏlı̂ybâmâh_, Oholibamah, “tent of the high place.” ענה _‛__ǎnâh_, ‘Anah, “answering.” צבעון _tsı̂b‛ôn_, Tsib‘on, “dyer, colored.” 4. אליפז _'ělı̂yphaz_, Eliphaz, “God of strength.” רעוּאל _r__e__‛û'êl_ Re‘uel, “friend of God.” 5. יעוּשׁ _y__e__‛ûsh_, Je‘ush, “haste.” יעלם _ya‛lâm_, Ja‘lam, “hiding.” קרח _qôrach_ Qorach, “ice.” 11. תימן

§ 10. THE GENERATIONS OF ESAU (CH. 36:1-37:1). EXPOSITION GENESIS 36:1 NOW THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS (cf. Genesis 2:4; Genesis 5:1, c.) OF ESAU,—Hairy (vide Genesis 25:25)—WHICH IS EDOM—Red (_vide _Genesis 25:30). GENESIS 36:2,...

AND ESAU TOOK HIS WIVES, AND HIS SONS, AND HIS DAUGHTERS,.... The names of his wives and sons are before given; but what were the names of his daughters, or their number, is not said: AND ALL THE PERSONS OF HIS HOUSE: his menservants and maidservants that were born in his house, or bought with his money; the word for "persons" signifies "souls" o, and is sometimes used for slaves that are bought and sold, see Ezekiel 27:13: AND HIS CATTLE, AND ALL HIS BEASTS; his sheep and oxen, camels and asses: AND ALL HIS SUBSTANCE WHICH HE HAD GOT IN THE LAND OF CANAAN: before he went to Seir the first time, part of which he might leave behind in Canaan, with servants to improve it; and also that part of his father's personal estate which fell to him at his death, as well as what he might further acquire after his death, during his stay in Can

X. THE GENERATIONS OF ESAU _ 1. Esau in Canaan, his wives and sons (Genesis 36:1)_ 2. Esau leaving Canaan and in Edom (Genesis 36:6) XI. THE GENERATIONS OF ESAU IN MOUNT SEIR _ 1. Sons of Esau (Genesis 36:9)_ 2. Sons of Eliphaz (Genesis 36:11) 3. Sons of Reuel (Genesis 36:13) 4. Sons of Aholibamah (Genesis 36:14) 5. Dukes of Eliphaz ...

GENESIS 36. EDOMITE GENEALOGIES, CHIEFTAINS, AND KINGS. This chapter is not a unity but a compilation with a very complicated literary history behind it. There is an element of P in it, but its extent, the degree in which it is a revision of earlier sources, and the allocation of the other matter, is very uncertain. The historical value of the chapter is great, but the genealogies and lists cannot be discussed here. Some points of interest may be mentioned. There is a strange discrepancy as to Esau's wives between Genesis 36:2; Genesis 26:34; Genesis 28:9. The same names largely recur in both lists, but in different relationships. In Genesis 3

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....

ESAU TOOK HIS WIVES— Esau, in all probability, had returned from Seir, after his conquest of the country and establishment there, and settled near his father Isaac; but finding the country of Canaan, in which the whole family were strangers, not sufficient for the increasing stock of Jacob and himself, he determined to return, and take up his abode again in Seir: this seems the plain state of the case. Instead of _into the country,_ at the end of the verse, the Samaritan and LXX both read, _out of the land of Canaan:_ though, probably, it might be read, _went into HIS country,_ that is, to mount Seir, which he formerly possessed; and where he now settled with all his family, Genesis 36:8 and whence, in process of time, his posterity drove the Horites entirely....