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Genesis 36:31

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the kings: Genesis 17:6, Genesis 17:16, Genesis 25:23; Numbers 20:14, Numbers 24:17-18; Deuteronomy 17:14-20, Deuteronomy 33:5, Deuteronomy 33:29; 1 Chronicles 1:43-50

before there: Moses may here allude to the promise which God made to Jacob (Genesis 35:11), that kings should proceed from him; and here states that these kings reigned before that prophecy began to be fulfilled.

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