Глава 36

Gen.36:4. "And Adah gave birth to Eliphaz Esau". This is the Eliphaz mentioned in the Book of Job. Gen.36:19. “These are the sons of Esau, and these are their elders. Esau himself is Edom. And behold the sons of Seir..." Esau, Edom and Seir are the names of one person. Why it is called differently is discussed above. And then follows: Gen.36:20. "...a Horite who lived in that land" and so on. After Scripture has listed the sons of Esau, it goes back to more ancient times and gives the names of the people from the tribe of the Horites who were the elders of the land of Edom before Esau. The word “Horites” is translated into our language as “free.” Let the reader himself carefully read Deuteronomy (2:21), which more clearly describes how the sons of Esau came to the land of the Horites and killed them and took possession of their land, making it their inheritance. Gen.36:22. “And the sons of Lotan were Hori and Heman; and Lotan’s sister is Tamna.” This is the same Famna that was mentioned above. And this Timna was the concubine of Eliphaz, the firstborn of Esau. And Amalek was born from her (Gen. 36:12). The Scripture mentioned the Horites because the firstborn son of Esau took a concubine from the daughters of the Horites. And regarding the words “Teman, Kenaz, Amalek” and so on (Gen. 36:15-16), you should know that the Edomite regions subsequently received their names from these people. Gen.36:24. “This is the Ana who found Jamin in the desert, when he was tending the donkeys of his father Zibeon.” The Jews have many different disputes about this verse, but the Greeks and ours are completely silent about it. Some believe that ajamim (יֵּמִם ֙) are seas, because the word “seas” is written with the same letters as the given word in this verse. And they believe that when Ana was tending his father’s donkeys in the desert, he found a collection of waters, which, in accordance with the peculiarity of the usage of the Hebrew language, can be called seas, because, of course, this man did not find “seas”, but some kind of reservoir, which is very difficult to find in the desert. Some believe that this word denotes warm waters by similarity to one of the words in the Punic language, which is close to Hebrew. There are those who are of the opinion that Ana allowed wild donkeys into his donkeys and thereby became the inventor of a type of animal crossing in which very fast donkeys called jamim would be born from them. Many people believe that Ana was the first to arrange the crossing of mares with donkeys, so that, against nature, they would give birth to unprecedented animals - mules. Aquila translated this passage as follows: “This is the Ana who found σύν τούς ᾿ Εμίμ.” And the translation of Symmachus is similar: τούς ᾿ Εμίμ. This translation indicates the plural. And the seventy interpreters and Theodotion translated the same: τὸν ᾿ Ιαμίμ. This indicates a singular number. Gen.36:33. “And Jobab the son of Zerah from Bozrah reigned after him.” Some, according to the addition at the end of the Book of Job, suggest that this is about Job. But the Jews, for their part, claim that Job was born from the offspring of Nahor, as stated above.