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Genesis 36
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Now these are the generations of , who is . took his wives of the daughters of ; the daughter of the , and Aholibamah the daughter of the daughter of the ; And Bashemath ’s daughter, sister of Nebajoth. And to ; and Bashemath ; And Aholibamah , and Jaalam, and : these are the sons of , which were born unto him in the land of . And took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his , and all his substance, which he had got in the land of ; and went into the country from the of his brother . For their riches were more than that they might together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle. Thus dwelt in mount : is . And these are the generations of of the in mount : These are the names of ’s sons; the son of the wife of , the son of Bashemath the wife of . And the sons of were , , , and , and . And was to ’s son; and she to : these were the sons of ’s wife. And these are the sons of ; , and , , and : these were the sons of Bashemath ’s wife. And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of the daughter of , ’s wife: and she to , and Jaalam, and . These were dukes of the sons of : the sons of son of ; duke , duke , duke , duke , Duke , duke , and duke : these are the dukes that came of in the land of ; these were the sons of . And these are the sons of ’s son; duke , duke , duke , duke : these are the dukes that came of in the land of ; these are the sons of Bashemath ’s wife. And these are the sons of Aholibamah ’s wife; duke , duke Jaalam, duke : these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of , ’s wife. 19These are the sons of , who is , and these are their dukes. These are the sons of the Horite, who inhabited the land; , and , and , and , 21And , and , and : these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of in the land of . And the children of were and ; and ’s sister was . And the children of were these; , and , and , , and . And these are the children of ; both Ajah, and : this was that that found the mules in , as he fed the asses of his . And the children of were these; , and Aholibamah the daughter of . And these are the children of ; , and , and , and . The children of are these; , and , and . The children of are these; , and Aran. These are the dukes that came of the Horites; duke , duke , duke , duke , Duke , duke , duke : these are the dukes that came of , among their dukes in the land of . And these are the kings that reigned in the land of , before there reigned any king over the . 32And the son of reigned in : and the name of his city was Dinhabah. And , and the son of of Bozrah reigned in his stead. And , and of the land of Temani reigned in his stead. 35And , and the son of Bedad, who smote in the field of , reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith. And , and of Masrekah reigned in his stead. And , and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead. 38And Saul , and the son of reigned in his stead. And the son of , and reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife’s name was , the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. And these are the names of the dukes that came of , according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke , duke , duke , 41Duke Aholibamah, duke , duke , 42Duke , duke , duke , Duke , duke : these be the dukes of , according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is of the .
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · The patriarchs, 2000 BC to 1600 BC ›
Abraham's family as herdsmen among settled Canaanite city-states, in a world where Egypt and Mesopotamia are the great powers and Canaan is the corridor between them.
- Mesopotamia
- Abraham's own century is Hammurabi's. The great empire of Ur has already fallen, and Babylon rises under a king who published a law code on a stone pillar for everyone to see. Reading Genesis alongside Hammurabi's laws is illuminating in both directions: some provisions are strikingly similar, and the places where Israel's later law diverges are the places worth stopping at.
- Egypt
- The Middle Kingdom, wealthy, bureaucratic, and organised around the Nile flood. Egyptian tomb paintings from this period show Semitic traders arriving with donkeys and striped cloaks, which is more or less the picture Genesis gives of a family going down to Egypt in a famine. Toward the end of the era the Hyksos, rulers of Semitic origin, take the delta.
- Anatolia and the Aegean
- Assyrian merchants run a long-distance trading colony at Kanesh in Anatolia, leaving thousands of clay letters about copper, tin, and debt. On Crete the Minoan palaces are at their height, with plumbing, frescoes, and a script nobody has yet read.
- Further afield
- The Indus Valley cities are in decline after centuries of grid-planned streets and drains. In China the Erlitou culture is building the first palace complexes. Stonehenge is standing and already old.
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