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 represent a different tradition from 26$34$ 28$9$; and that in $2-5a$ a clumsy and half-hearted attempt has been made to establish some points of contact between them. If we accept the of [E], etc., in 26$34$, the two traditions agree in the main ethnological point, that the Edomite people was composed of Ḥittite (? Canaanite), Ḥivvite (? Ḥorite), and Ishmaelite elements.

On the Names.—(a) is the name of one of Lamech's wives: see on 4$19$.—(b) (,, etc.). Somewhat similar compounds with are found in Phœnician  and Sab. as well as in Heb. (, Ex. 31$6$; [Hebrew : **], Ezk. 23$4ff.$) (see Gray, HPN, 246$1$). The first component is presumably Ar. and Sab. 'ahl, 'family'; the second ought by analogy to be a divine name, though none such is known. It is philologically probable that names of this type were originally clan-names; and is taken from the old list of Ḥorite clans (v.$25$, cf. $41$).—(c) (for which [E] always reads, 28$9$), if from [root] , 'smell sweetly,' is likely to have been a favourite woman's name, but recurs only 1 Ki. 4$15$ of a daughter of Solomon. On and, see on v.$20$: the obvious connexion with that v. makes it practically certain that in v.$2$ is a mistake for .—On the sons, see below.—It is pointed out by Ho. (187) that both in $9-14$ and $15-19$ the 'Oholibamah branch holds a somewhat exceptional position. This may mean that it represents hybrid clans, whereas the other two are of pure Edomite stock: that it is a later insertion in the lists s ess likely.

6-8. Esau's migration to Se'ir.—6. Cf. 12$5$ (34$23$).—and his daughters] None are mentioned in $2-5$.—to the land of Sĕ'îr] So we must read with S.—7. The motive for the separation is the same as that which led to the parting of Abraham and Lot (13$6a$), implying that Esau had lived at Hebron after Jacob's return; contrast J, 32$4$ 33$14. 16$.—8. the mountain of Sĕ'îr] the mountainous country E of the Arabah, the southern part of which is now called eš-Šera' and the northern Ǧebāl (Buhl, Edom. 28 ff.). The land Se'ir includes the whole Edomite territory as far W as Ḳadesh (Nu. 20$16$). See on 14$6$ 27$39f.$, and below on v.$20$.

9-14. The genealogy of Esau.—9, 10. For the double heading followed by, cf. 25$12f.$—Esau the father of Edom] see footnote on v.$1$. It is strange that except in these glosses Edom is never the eponymus of the

1$35$ 8$39$ 23$10f.$, 2 Ch. 11$19$[dagger].—6. gives no sense, and to insert (T$OJ$V) is inadmissible without a change of text. [E]G is possible; but it is simplest to follow S .—] 'on account of,' as 6$13$ 27$4$ etc.