9And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
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And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-19)Observe here, 1. That only the names of Esau’s sons and grandsons are recorded, only their names, not their history; for it is the church that Moses preserves the records of, not the record of those that are without. Those elders that lived by faith alone obtained a good report. It is Sion that produces the men of renown, not Seir, Ps. 87:5. Nor does the genealogy go any further than the third and…
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