30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew!(A) I’m famished!” (That is why he was also called Edom.[a])(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 25:30 Edom means red.

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,(A) and moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.(B) Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock.(C) So Esau(D) (that is, Edom)(E) settled in the hill country of Seir.(F)

This is the account(G) of the family line of Esau the father of the Edomites(H) in the hill country of Seir.

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Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.(A)

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and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.(A) I assigned the hill country of Seir(B) to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.(C)

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