These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
Parallel translations
- KJV And these are the sons of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah: these were the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.
- BSB These are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. They are the grandsons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
- NKJV These were the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
- NASB And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
- NLT The descendants of Reuel were Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah. These are the descendants of Esau’s wife Basemath.
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Quick answer
These are the four sons of Reuel, Esau's son by Basemath. They too became Edomite clan heads.
Overview
Reuel's sons—Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah—continue the record of Esau's expanding family through Basemath. The repetition of names and lineages stresses that God's word to Rebekah, that two nations were in her womb (Genesis 25:23), was being fulfilled in history.
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Cross-references · 2
- 1 Chr 1:37The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
- Gen 36:17These are the sons of Reuel, Esau’s son: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah: these are the chiefs who came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Basemath, Esau’s wife.
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