Genesis 36:41 stands within the record of Esau, who is Edom, setting out the descendants and the nations that sprang from him through almost the whole chapter. It falls ten or eleven years after Jacob's blessing at Peniel, after his meeting with Esau and his peaceful coming to Shechem, and after the destruction of Shechem. Between those events and this record came the revival in Jacob's family when they put away idols and God blessed Jacob and renewed His promises to him, followed by the death of Rachel and the birth of Benjamin, Reuben's sin, the account of the sons of Israel, and the death of Isaac at 180 years of age when Esau and Jacob probably met for the last time. At the time of this account Jacob was about 109 years old, Joseph was 17, and Benjamin was a small child two to four years old.
Genesis 36:41 stands within the record of Esau, who is Edom, setting out the descendants and the nations that sprang from him through almost the whole chapter. It falls ten or eleven years after Jacob's blessing at Peniel, after his meeting with Esau and his peaceful coming to Shechem, and after the destruction of Shechem. Between those events and this record came the revival in Jacob's family when they put away idols and God blessed Jacob and renewed His promises to him, followed by the death of Rachel and the birth of Benjamin, Reuben's sin, the account of the sons of Israel, and the death of Isaac at 180 years of age when Esau and Jacob probably met for the last time. At the time of this account Jacob was about 109 years old, Joseph was 17, and Benjamin was a small child two to four years old.