and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.
- BSB and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.
- NKJV and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- NASB and the Horites on their Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
- NLT and the Horites at Mount Seir, as far as El-paran at the edge of the wilderness.
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- Deut 2:22as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:
- Gen 21:21He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother took a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Deut 2:12The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)
- Num 13:3Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran according to the commandment of Yahweh. All them were men who were heads of the children of Israel.
- Num 12:16Afterward the people traveled from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran.
- 1 Chr 1:38–42The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
- Gen 16:7Yahweh’s angel found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
- Num 10:12The children of Israel went forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud stayed in the wilderness of Paran.
- Gen 36:20–30These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- Gen 36:8Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.
- Hab 3:3God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and his praise filled the earth.
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