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Genesis 36
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Now this is the history of the generations of (that is, ). took his wives from the daughters of : the daughter of , the ; and the daughter of , the daughter of , the ; and , daughter, sister of . bore to . bore . bore , , and . These are the sons of , who were born to him in the land of . took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of , and went into a land away from his brother . For their substance was too great for them to together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock. lived in the hill country of . is . This is the history of the generations of of the in the hill country of : these are the names of sons: , the son of , the wife of ; and , the son of , the wife of . The sons of were , , , and , and . was to , son; and she bore to . These are the of , wife. These are the sons of : , , , and . These were the of , wife. These were the sons of , the daughter of , the daughter of , wife: she bore to , , and . These are the chiefs of the sons of : the sons of of : chief , chief , chief , chief , chief , chief , chief . These are the chiefs who came of in the land of . These are the sons of . These are the sons of , son: chief , chief , chief , chief . These are the chiefs who came of in the land of . These are the sons of , wife. These are the sons of , wife: chief , chief , chief . These are the chiefs who came of the daughter of , wife. 19These are the sons of (that is, ), and these are their chiefs. These are the sons of the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: , , , , 21, , and . These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of in the land of . The children of were and . sister was . These are the children of : , , , , and . These are the children of : and . This is who found the hot springs in , as he fed the donkeys of his . These are the children of : and , the daughter of . These are the children of : , , , and . These are the children of : , , and . These are the children of : and Aran. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites: chief , chief , chief , chief , chief , chief , and chief . These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of . These are the kings who reigned in the land of , before any king reigned over the . 32, the son of , reigned in . The name of his city was Dinhabah. , and , the son of of Bozrah, reigned in his place. , and of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place. 35 , and , the son of Bedad, who struck in the field of , reigned in his place. The name of his city was Avith. , and of Masrekah reigned in his place. , and of Rehoboth by the river, reigned in his place. 38 , and the son of reigned in his place. the son of , and reigned in his place. The name of his city was Pau. His wife's name was , the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab. These are the names of the chiefs who came from , according to their families, after their places, and by their names: chief , chief , chief , 41chief , chief , chief , 42chief , chief , chief , chief , and chief . These are the chiefs of , according to their habitations in the land of their possession. This is , of the .
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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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