Genesis 36:8
Good News Translation
So Esau lived in the hill country of Edom.

New Revised Standard Version
So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir; Esau is Edom.

Contemporary English Version
That's why Esau made his home in the hill country of Seir.

New American Bible
So Esau settled in the highlands of Seir. (Esau is Edom.)

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.

mount Seir.

Genesis 36:20 These are the sons of Seir, the Horrite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, and Sobal, and Sebeon, and Ana,

Genesis 14:6 And the Chorreans in the mountains of Seir, even to the plains of Pharan, which is in the wilderness.

Genesis 32:3 And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:

Deuteronomy 2:5 Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.

Joshua 24:4 And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

1 Chronicles 4:42 Some also of the children of Simeon, five hundred men, went into mount Seir, having for their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia and Oziel the sons of Jesi:

2 Chronicles 20:10,23 Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and mount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass, when they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew them not, . . .

Ezekiel 35:2-7 Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it: . . .

Malachi 1:3 But have hated Esau? and I have made his mountains a wilderness, and given his inheritance to the dragons of the desert.

Esau.

Genesis 36:1 And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.

Context
Esau's Descendants
7For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks. 8And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: he is Edom.9And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir.…
Cross References
Genesis 32:3
And he sent messengers before him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, to the country of Edom:

Genesis 36:1
And these are the generations of Esau, the same is Edom.

Genesis 36:9
And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir.

Genesis 36:19
These are the sons of Esau, and these the dukes of them: the same is Edom.

Deuteronomy 2:4
And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you.

Deuteronomy 2:5
Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.

Deuteronomy 2:22
As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which they possess to this day.

Joshua 24:4
And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

1 Chronicles 4:42
Some also of the children of Simeon, five hundred men, went into mount Seir, having for their captains Phaltias and Naaria and Raphaia and Oziel the sons of Jesi:

Jeremiah 40:11
Moreover all the Jews that were in Moab, and among the children of Ammon, and in Edom, and in all the countries, when they heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judea, and that he had made Godolias the son of Ahicam the son of Saphan ruler over them:

Ezekiel 35:2
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say to it:

Genesis 36:7
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