Esau’s Descendants

36:1-19

1 Chronicles 1:34-54

36 Here is a record about the descendants of Esau, whose name was also Edom. 2 Esau had married two Canaanite women. Their names were Adah, who was the daughter of a Hittite man named Elon, and Oholibamah, whose father was Anah and whose grandfather was a Hivite named Zibeon. 3 Esau also married Basemath, who was Ishmael’s daughter and Nebaioth’s sister.

4 Adah had a son with Esau whom they named Eliphaz, while Basemath had a son named Reuel. 5 Oholibamah had sons named Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All those were Esau’s sons whom he and his wives had while they lived in the region of Canaan.

6 Later Esau moved away from his brother Jacob. He took with him his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the other members of his household, as well as his livestock and all the rest of his animals and all the other belongings that he had gotten in the region of Canaan. 7 The reason he moved away is that he and Jacob both owned so many animals that they could not live together in the same area. The land where they were staying was just not big enough to support them both because they had so many livestock. 8 That is how Esau and his family ended up living in the Seir Mountains. That is the record about Esau, that is, Edom.

9 Here is a more detailed record of the descendants of Esau, who was the ancestor of the Edomites who live in the Seir Mountains. 10 Two of Esau’s sons were Eliphaz, whom he had with his wife Adah, and Reuel, whom he had with his wife Basemath. 11 Eliphaz and his wife had sons they named Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. 12 Eliphaz and his servant-wife Timna had a son they named Amalek. Eliphaz’s sons were all grandsons of Esau and his wife Adah.

13 Reuel’s sons were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They were the grandsons of Esau and his wife Basemath.

14 Esau and his wife Oholibamah had sons whom they named Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. Oholibamah was the daughter of Anah and the granddaughter of Zibeon.

15 Here is a record of the descendants of Esau who became clan leaders: The sons of his firstborn son Eliphaz who became clan leaders were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Kenaz, 16 Korah, Gatam, and Amalek. They were the clan leaders who descended from Eliphaz and lived in the land of Edom. They were all grandsons of Adah and Esau.

17 The sons of Esau’s son Reuel who became clan leaders were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They were the clan leaders who descended from Reuel and lived in the land of Edom. They were all grandsons of Esau and his wife Basemath.

18 The sons of Esau’s wife Oholibamah who became clan leaders were Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. They were the clan leaders who descended from Esau and his wife Oholibamah, who was Anah’s daughter.

19 All those clan leaders were the descendants of Esau, that is, Edom, and each one led his own family group.