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Genesis 36:2

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Esau: Genesis 9:25, Genesis 26:34-35, Genesis 27:46

Adah: or, Bashemath, Genesis 26:34

Aholibamah: Genesis 36:25; Genesis 26:34, Judith

the daughter: We ought, most probably, to read here and in Genesis 36:14, as in Genesis 36:20, "the son of Zibeon;" which is the reading of the Samaritan, Septuagint (and Syriac, in Genesis 36:2), and which Houbigant and Kennicott contend to be genuine.

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