Genesis 36:4

4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

Genesis 36:4 in Other Translations

4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

4 And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;

4 Adah gave birth to a son named Eliphaz for Esau. Basemath gave birth to a son named Reuel.

4 Adah gave Esau Eliphaz; Basemath had Reuel;

4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bare Reuel;

4 Adah gave birth to Eliphaz for Esau, and Basemath gave birth to Reuel.

4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

4 Adah had Eliphaz by Esau. Basemath had Reuel.

Genesis 36:4 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 36:4

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz
This son of Esau, according to Jerom ^F14, is the same with him mentioned in the book of Job, as one of his friends that came to visit him, ( Job 2:11 ) ; and so says the Targum of Jonathan on ( Genesis 36:10 ) ; but he rather was the grandson of this man, since he is called the Temanite: and Bashemath bare Reuel;
the name is the same with Reuel or Raguel, the name of Jethro; but cannot be the same person as is said by some, for he was a Midianite and not an Edomite, ( Exodus 2:18 ) ( Numbers 10:29 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Trad. Heb. in Gen. fol. 71. L. tom. 3.

Genesis 36:4 In-Context

2 Esau took his wives from the women of Canaan: Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah daughter of Anah and granddaughter of Zibeon the Hivite—

3 also Basemath daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.

4 Adah bore Eliphaz to Esau, Basemath bore Reuel,

5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These were the sons of Esau, who were born to him in Canaan.

6 Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the members of his household, as well as his livestock and all his other animals and all the goods he had acquired in Canaan, and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 3; 1 Chronicles 1:35