And I will bless her, and give you a son by her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him.

And they blessed Rebecca, and said to her, You are our sister; [may] you become [the mother] of thousands and thousands, and let your seed possess the cities of their enemies.

And the lads grew, and Esau was a man skilled in hunting, dwelling in the country, and Jacob a simple man, dwelling in a house.

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to your brother Esau, and behold, he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.

But he advanced himself before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he drew near to his brother.

Now these are the kings which reigned in Edom, before a king reigned in Israel:

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying, Thus says your brother Israel; You know all the distress that has come upon us.

And let nations serve you, and princes bow down to you, and be master over your brother, and the sons of your father shall reverence you; accursed is he that curses you, and blessed is he that blesses you.

And you shall live by your sword, and shall serve your brother; and there shall be [a time] when you shall break and loosen his yoke from off your neck.

And he set garrisons in Edom, even in all Edom: and all the Edomites were servants to the king. And the Lord preserved David wherever he went.

[This translation omits this verse.]

And he put garrisons in the valley; and all the Edomites became David's servants, and the Lord delivered David wherever he went.

And Amaziah strengthened [himself], and took his people, and went to the Valley of Salt, and killed ten thousand of the children of Seir there.

And the children of Judah took ten thousand prisoners, and they carried them to the top of the rock, and cast them headlong from the top of the rock, and they were all dashed to pieces.

Judah is My king; Moab is the caldron of My hope; over Edom will I stretch out My shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to Me.

Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will guide me as far as Edom?

For they have taken counsel together with one consent; they have made a confederacy against You;

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

Do to them as to Midian, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the Brook of Kishon.

Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna; [even] all their princes,

O my God, make them as a wheel, as stubble before the face of the wind.

so shall You persecute them with Your tempest, and trouble them in Your anger.

Draw near, you nations; and hearken, you princes; let the earth hear, and they that are in it; the world, and the people therein.

And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their stench shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

My sword has been made drunk in heaven; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and with judgment upon the people doomed to destruction.

And the mighty ones shall fall with them, and the rams and the bulls; and the land shall be soaked with blood, and shall be filled with their fat.

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

and for a long time birds and hedgehogs, and ibises and ravens shall dwell in it; and the measuring line of desolation shall be cast over it, and satyrs shall dwell in it.

And thorns shall spring up in their cities, and in her strongholds; and they shall be habitations of monsters, and a court of ostriches.

There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young; there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.

And He shall cast lots for them, and His hand has portioned out [their] pasture, [saying], You shall inherit [the land] forever; they shall rest on it [throughout] all generations.

Who is this that has come from Edom, [with] red garments from Bosor? Thus fair in his apparel, with mighty strength? I speak of righteousness and saving judgment.

I am full of trodden [grapes], and of the nations there is not a man with Me; and I trampled them in My fury, and dashed them to pieces as earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

And I looked, and there was no helper; and I observed, and none upheld; therefore My arm delivered them, and My anger drew near.

Concerning Edom, thus says the Lord: There is no longer wisdom in Teman, counsel has perished from the wise ones, their wisdom is gone,

For grape gatherers have come, who shall not leave to you a remnant; as thieves by night, they shall lay their hand upon [your possessions].

for your fatherless one to be left to live, but I shall live, and the widows trust in Me.

For by Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, that you shall be in the midst of her an impassable [land], and a reproach, and a curse; and all her cities shall be deserted forever.

I have made you small among the nations, utterly contemptible among men.

And Edom shall be a desert; everyone that passes by shall hiss at it.

Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of the Jordan to the place of Etham; for I will speedily drive them from it, and I will set the young men against her; for who is like Me? And who will withstand Me? And who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront Me?

For at the sound of their fall the earth was scared, and the cry of the sea was not heard.

Thus says the Lord: Because of what the Edomites have done in taking vengeance on the house of Judah, and [because they] have remembered injuries, and have exacted full recompense;

And I will execute My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel; and they shall deal in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath, and they shall know My vengeance, says the Lord.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

and say to it, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a waste, and you shall be made desolate.

Because you have been a perpetual enemy, and have lied in wait craftily for the house of Israel, with the hand of enemies with a sword, in the time of injustice, at the last:

And I will make Mount Seir a waste, and desolate, and I will destroy from off of it [both] men and cattle;

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited anymore; and you shall know that I am the Lord.

Therefore, [as] I live, says the Lord, I will even deal with you according to your enmity, and I will be made known to you when I shall judge you;

and you have spoken swelling words against Me with your mouth: I have heard [them].

You shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all of Edom; and it shall be utterly consumed; and you shall know that I am the Lord their God.

Thus says the Lord; For three sins of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away from them, because they pursued their brother with the sword, and destroyed the mother upon the earth, and summoned up his anger for a testimony, and kept up his fury to the end.

And I will send forth a fire upon Teman, and it shall devour the foundations of her walls.

The vision of Obadiah. Thus says the Lord God to Edom; I have heard a report from the Lord, and He has sent forth a message to the nations.

Behold, I have made you small among the Gentiles: you are greatly dishonored. The pride of your heart has elated you, dwelling [as you do] in the holes of the rocks, [as one that] exalts his habitation, saying in his heart, Who will bring me down to the ground?

If thieves came in to you, or robbers by night, where would you have been cast away? Would they not have stolen just enough for themselves? And if grape-gatherers went in to you, would they not leave a gleaning?

They sent you to your coasts: all the men of your covenant have withstood you; your allies have prevailed against you, they have set snares under you: they have no understanding.

And your warriors from Teman shall be dismayed, to the end that man may be cut off from the mount of Esau.

From the day that you stood in opposition [to him], in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.

Neither should you have gone into the gates of the people in the day of their troubles; nor yet should you have looked upon their gathering in the day of their destruction, nor should you have attacked their host in the day of their perishing.

For the day of the Lord is near upon all the Gentiles: as you have done, so shall it be done to you: your recompense shall be returned on your own head.

I have loved you, says the Lord. And you said, How have You loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? Says the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,

Because one will say, Edom has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus says the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set Himself forever.

And not only this, but also Rebecca having conception from one [man], our father Isaac;

it was said to her, "The older shall serve the younger."