1. These are the descendants of Esau, also called Edom.
2. Esau married Canaanite women: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah son of Zibeon the Hivite;
3. and Basemath, the daughter of Ishmael and sister of Nebaioth.
4. Adah bore Eliphaz; Basemath bore Reuel;
5. and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. All these sons were born to Esau in the land of Canaan.
6. Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the people of his house, together with all his livestock and all the possessions he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went away from his brother Jacob to another land.
10-13. Esau's wife Adah bore him one son, Eliphaz, and Eliphaz had five sons: Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz. And by another wife, Timna, he had one more son, Amalek.Esau's wife Basemath bore him one son, Reuel, and Reuel had four sons: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
20-21. The original inhabitants of the land of Edom were divided into tribes which traced their ancestry to the following descendants of Seir, a Horite: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
25-26. Anah was the father of Dishon, who was the ancestor of the clans of Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran. Anah also had a daughter named Oholibamah.
29-30. These are the Horite tribes in the land of Edom: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.
31-39. Before there were any kings in Israel, the following kings ruled over the land of Edom in succession:Bela son of Beor from DinhabahJobab son of Zerah from BozrahHusham from the region of TemanHadad son of Bedad from Avith (he defeated the Midianites in a battle in the country of Moab)Samlah from MasrekahShaul from Rehoboth-on-the-RiverBaal Hanan son of AchborHadad from Pau (his wife was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred and granddaughter of Mezahab)
40-43. Esau was the ancestor of the following Edomite tribes: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth, Oholibamah, Elah, Pinon, Kenaz, Teman, Mibzar, Magdiel, and Iram. The area where each of these tribes lived was known by the name of the tribe.