Genesis 36:6
And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance, which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob.
Genesis 36 is wholly taken up with Esau and the nations which sprang from him, chiefly recording his descendants, the people of Edom. The verse describes Esau moving away from the face of his brother Jacob, taking his wives and children and household with his cattle and beasts and livestock and all his possessions and substance which he had acquired in the land of Canaan. That departure followed the death of Isaac at the age of 180, when Esau and Jacob probably met for the last time. At the time of the separation Jacob was about 109 years old, Joseph was 17, and Benjamin was a small child from two to four years old, ten or eleven years after Jacob's blessing at Peniel.
The word persons translates the Hebrew nephesh, elsewhere translated soul, and means the souls or people belonging to Esau's household. Soul here means the whole person, a living human being and not only life, so that soul could be substituted for person without changing the sense. It is one of 29 places where nephesh is rendered person.
The verse belongs to the account of Jacob going forward to meet his brother Esau. In that account God gave Jacob a vision that His angelic host was with him. Jacob humbled his heart before God and pleaded only divine mercy. His name was changed from Jacob the supplanter to Israel the prevailer.