Individual companion track · KJV first

Edom
Esau’s descendants, chiefs, and kings

Genesis 36 is the controlling register for Edom: Esau’s family, the Horites of Seir, the chiefs, and the kings who reigned before Israel had a king. Jasher adds wars and reign lengths for examination.

The governing order

Scripture establishes the line; Jasher supplies additional detail.

KJV foundation

The biblical names, relationships, places, ages, and events remain controlling.

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Jasher historical parallel

Additional narratives are retained as testimony and always identified by source.

No silent harmonizing

Where Jasher adds an identity, event, age, or conflict absent from Scripture, the distinction remains visible.

01 · KJV record and historical parallel

Esau is Edom

Genesis 36:1–8 · KJV foundation

Scripture explicitly identifies Esau with Edom and places his settled household in mount Seir.

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02 · KJV record and historical parallel

The families of Esau and Seir

Genesis 36:9–30 · KJV foundation

The KJV preserves Esau’s sons and chiefs alongside the sons and chiefs of Seir the Horite.

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Jasher 30:23–29; 57:13–37 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: Jasher’s wars for Seir and the fivefold division of the land are additional narrative.

03 · KJV record and historical parallel

Kings before Israel’s monarchy

Genesis 36:31–39 · KJV foundation

Genesis preserves the royal order from Bela through Hadar without supplying reign lengths.

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04 · KJV record and historical parallel

Bela, Jobab, and Husham

Genesis 36:32–35 · KJV foundation

The biblical succession is fixed by the KJV list.

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Jasher 57:38–45; 58:14–29 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: The thirty-year and ten-year reigns, wars with Egypt, and death of Bela are Jasher reports.

05 · KJV record and historical parallel

Hadad and the wars with Midian

Genesis 36:35–36 · KJV foundation

Scripture says Hadad smote Midian in the field of Moab.

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Jasher 62:1–22 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: Jasher greatly expands the campaigns and chronology, and its nearby reign figures do not always join seamlessly.

06 · KJV record and historical parallel

Edom at the Exodus boundary

Exodus 15:15; Numbers 20:14–21 · KJV foundation

The KJV carries Edom forward as a neighboring nation whose rulers and people encounter Israel.

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Jasher 80–85 · historical parallel

Jasher supplies the fuller narrative associated with this stage of the track.

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Source boundary: Named Edomite rulers supplied only by Jasher remain historical testimony.

What the page establishes

Genesis 36 governs the Edomite line; Jasher’s royal and military history is preserved beside it without being promoted to Scripture.

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