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The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)
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Verse 12. Gave him, on the east side of the Jordan. They had not yet taken possession of Chanaan. But Moses foresees that they shortly will; and in this sense we may translate, “Esau dwelt there, as Israel will in the land,” and so forth verse 29. The neighbouring nations could not rationally object to their coming, as they themselves had dispossessed the former owners of the land, 5:20. 23. Calmet.
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