Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
Parallel translations
- WEB Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz. Basemath bore Reuel.
- KJV And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;
- BSB And Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath gave birth to Reuel,
- NKJV Now Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bore Reuel.
- NLT Adah gave birth to a son named Eliphaz for Esau. Basemath gave birth to a son named Reuel.
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Adah bears Eliphaz to Esau, and Basemath bears Reuel.
Overview
The genealogy lists Esau's sons by his wives, beginning the count of the Edomite clans. Eliphaz and Reuel become heads of major branches of Esau's descendants. The careful record shows the growth of Esau's line in fulfillment of God's word that he too would father a people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 1 Chr 1:35The sons of Esau: Eliphaz, Reuel, Jeush, Jalam, and Korah.
- Exod 2:18When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, “How is it that you have returned so early today?”
- Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
- Num 10:29Moses said to Hobab, the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are journeying to the place of which Yahweh said, ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well; for Yahweh has spoken good concerning Israel.”
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