Genesis 27:40-41
40By your sword you shall live,and you ashall serve your brother;
but when you grow restless
byou shall break his yoke from your neck.”
41Now Esau chated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, d“The days of mourning for my father are approaching; ethen I will kill my brother Jacob.”
Numbers 20:14-21
Edom Refuses Passage
14 fMoses sent messengers from Kadesh to gthe king of Edom: “Thus says hyour brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met: 15 ihow our fathers went down to Egypt, jand we lived in Egypt a long time. kAnd the Egyptians dealt harshly with us and our fathers. 16And lwhen we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and msent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory. 17 nPlease let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, oor drink water from a well. We will go along the King’s Highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.” 18But Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you.” 19And the people of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, pand if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, qthen I will pay for it. Let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.” 20But he said, r“You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against them with a large army and with a strong force. 21Thus Edom srefused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel tturned away from him.Deuteronomy 2:4-8
4and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of uyour brothers, the people of Esau, vwho live in Seir; and wthey will be afraid of you. So be very careful. 5Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because xI have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 6 yYou shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. 7For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. zHe knows your going through this great wilderness. aaThese forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’ 8So abwe went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from acthe Arabah road from adElath and aeEzion-geber.“And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
Deuteronomy 23:7
7“You shall not abhor an Edomite, for afhe is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because agyou were a sojourner in his land.2 Chronicles 28:17
17For the Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried away captives.Psalms 83:3-8
3They lay ahcrafty plans against your people;they consult together against your aitreasured ones.
4They say, “Come, ajlet us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
5For they conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
6the tents of akEdom and althe Ishmaelites,
amMoab and anthe Hagrites,
7 aoGebal and apAmmon and aqAmalek,
arPhilistia with the inhabitants of asTyre;
8 atAsshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of authe children of Lot. Selah
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