³ Then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother ^(A)in the land of Seir, ^(B)the ^[a]country of Edom.

¹⁴ Please let my lord go on ahead before his servant. I will lead on slowly at a pace which the livestock that go before me, and the children, ^[a]are able to endure, until I come to my lord ^(A)in Seir.”

¹⁶ So Esau returned that day on his way to Seir.

⁸ So Esau dwelt in ^(A)Mount Seir. ^(B)Esau is Edom.

² It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir ^(A)to Kadesh Barnea.

The Desert Years

2 “Then we turned and ^(A)journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, ^(B)as the Lord spoke to me, and we ^[a]skirted Mount Seir for many days.

⁵ Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, ^(A)because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

²² just as He had done for the descendants of Esau, ^(A)who dwelt in Seir, when He destroyed ^(B)the Horites from before them. They dispossessed them and dwelt in their place, even to this day.

^17 (A)from ^[a]Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured ^(B)all their kings, and struck them down and killed them.

⁴ To Isaac I gave ^(A)Jacob and Esau. To ^(B)Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, ^(C)but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.