Joshua 24:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Common English Bible

To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Mount Seir to Esau to take over. But Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

and I gave to him Isaac. And to him, I gave again Jacob and Esau. And I gave mount Seir to Esau as a possession. Yet truly, Jacob and his sons descended into Egypt.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And gave him Isaac. And to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Joshua 24:4 Cross References

Genesis 32:3

Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,

Genesis 36:8

So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

Genesis 36:9

These are the descendants of Esau, ancestor of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

Psalm 105:23

Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.

Acts 7:15

so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,

Deuteronomy 2:5

not to engage in battle with them, for I will not give you even so much as a foot’s length of their land, since I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.