These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
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- KJV These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and Zibeon, and Anah,
- BSB These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who were living in the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- NKJV These were the sons of Seir the Horite who inhabited the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- NASB These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
- NLT These are the names of the tribes that descended from Seir the Horite. They lived in the land of Edom: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
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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:
- 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.)
- Gen 14:6and the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El Paran, which is by the wilderness.
- 1 Chr 1:38–42The sons of Seir: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
- Gen 36:22–30The children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. Lotan’s sister was Timna.
- Gen 36:2Esau took his wives from the daughters of Canaan: Adah the daughter of Elon, the Hittite; and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, the Hivite;
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