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Genesis 36:8

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Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
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  1. Genesis 32:3Rank 1 from verse 8
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    3And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

  2. Malachi 1:3Rank 2 from verse 8
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    3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

  3. Ezekiel 35:2–7Rank 3 from verse 8
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    2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

    3And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.

    4I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

    5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

    6Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

    7Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

  4. 1 Chronicles 4:42Rank 4 from verse 8
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    42And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

  5. 2 Chronicles 20:10Rank 5 from verse 8
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    10And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

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Genesis 36:8

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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mount

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Sense 1: A hill, mountain, or elevated tract of land. Sense 2: An artificial raised mound used in siege. Sense 3: To rise, ascend, climb, get upon, or increase upward.

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7For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

8Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

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9¶ And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

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