Genesis 36:4 - Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz Basemath bore

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Explanation and meaning of Genesis 36:4.

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KJV

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

ASV, ERV

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bare Reuel;

DRA

And Ada bore Eliphaz: Basemath bore Rahuel:

DBY

And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basmath bore Reuel.

WBT, AKJV

And Adah bore to Esau, Eliphaz; and Bashemath bore Reuel;

YLT

And Adah beareth to Esau, Eliphaz; and Bashemath hath born Reuel;

BBE

Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel;

CPDV

Then Adah bore Eliphaz. Basemath conceived Reuel.

Latin

Et peperit Adah ipsi Esau Eliphaz: et Bosmath peperit Rehuel.

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John Gill's Exposition (1746-63)

And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz,.... This son of Esau, according to Jerom (n), is the same with him mentioned in the book of Job, as one of his friends that came to visit him, Job 2:11; and so says the Targum of Jonathan on Genesis 36:10; but he rather was the grandson of this man, since he is called the Temanite:
and Bashemath bare Reuel; the name is the same with Reuel or Raguel, the name of Jethro; but cannot be the same person as is said by some, for he was a Midianite and not an Edomite, Exodus 2:18.
(n) Trad. Hebrews. in Genesis. fol. 71. L. tom. 3.

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Genesis - 36:4

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