in 44. Isaie. Al doe import a great excellencie in this Patriarch. And the successe of things confirmeth the same. Particularly in that not onlie some one of his sonnes (as in the issue of Abraham and Isaac, the rest being excluded) but his whole progenie of twelue sonnes, Al his twelue sonnes in their posteritie were heires of the promised land.making twelue Tribes, were participant of the peculiar blessings, in their ofspring possessing the promised land, and exceedingly increasing became the most principal nation in the world, the selected people of God, called by the name and title Of the children of Israel. Of whom not only Moyses, but al the old Testament most specially treateth, and of whom and in whom the promised Messias, the Redeemer of mankind, should be borne.
CHAP. XXXVI.
AND ″ these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom. 2Esau tooke wiues of the daughters of Chanaan: ″ Ada the daughter of Elon the Hetheite, and Oolibama the daughter of Ana daughter of Sebeon the Heueite: 3Basemath also the daughter of Ismael sister of Nabaioth. 4And Ada bare Eliphaz: Basemath bare Rahuel: 5Oolibama bare Iehus and Ihelon and Coree, these are the sonnes of Esau, that were borne to him in the land of Chanaan. 6And [1] Esau tooke his wiues and sonnes and daughters, and euerie soule of his house, and his substance, and cattle, and al that he could haue in the land of Chanaan: and he went into an other countrie, and ″ departed from his brother Iacob. 7For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwel together: neither was the land of their peregrination able to beare them, for the multitude of flocks. 8And Esau ″ dwelt in Mount Seir, he is Edom. 9And these are the generations of Esau the father of Edom in mount Seir, 10and these are the names of his sonnes: Eliphaz the sonne of Ada the wife of Esau: Rahuel also the sonne of Basemath his wife. 11And Eliphas had sonnes: Theman, Omar, Sepho, and Gathan, and Cenes. 12And Thamna was the concubine of Eliphas the sonne of Esau: which bare to him Amalech. These are the sonnes of Ada the wife of Esau. 13And the sonnes of Rahuel were Nahath and Zara, Samma and Meza. These were the sonnes of Basemath the wife of Esau. 14These also were the sonnes of Oolibama, the daughter of Ana, the daughter of Sebeon, the wife of Esau, which she bare to him, Iehus, and Ihelon, and Coree. 15These were Dukes of the sonnes of Esau: the sonnes of Eliphaz the first-begotten of Esau: Duke Theman, Duke Omar, Duke Sepho, Duke Cenes, 16Duke Coree, Duke Gatham, Duke Amalech, these are the sonnes of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, & these are the sonnes of Ada. 17These also were the
- ↑ The separation of Esau from Iacob.
