Genesis 36:6 - Exposition

And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons (literally, souls) of his house, and his cattle ( mikneh ), and all his beasts ( behemah ), and all his substance (literally, all his acquisitions ) , whi ch he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country —literally, into a land; not ἐκ τῆς γῆς ( LXX .), or in alteram regionem (Vulgate), but either into the land, so . of Seir (Keil), or, taking the next as a qualifying clause, into a land apart (Murphy, Lange)— from the face of —or, on account of (Rosenmüller, Kalisch)—his brother Jacob.