Devarim (Deuteronomy) 2:2-5: "HaShem (G-d) said to me (Mosheh/Moses), saying, '...Command the people, saying, 'You are passing the boundary of your brothers, the Children of Esav (Esau) who dwell in Seir... Do not provoke them, for I will not give you from their land even [the measure of] a footfall, for I have given Mount Seir as an inheritance for Esav.''"
Rashi (ad loc): "'an inheritance for Esav' - from Avraham (Abraham). [NOTE: Esav and Israel were twin sons of Yitzchak (Isaac) son of Avraham.] I gave [Avraham] [the land of] ten nations (B'Reshith/Genesis 15:18-21). Seven [are given] to you [Israel], and [of the nations of] the Keni (Kenite) and Kenizi (Kenizzite) and Kadmoni (Kadmonite), which are [the lands of]Amon and Moav (Moab) and Seir, one of them is given to Esav, and the [other] two [are given] to the sons of Lot (Avraham's nephew). In reward for having gone with [Avraham] to Egypt and being silent about that which [Avraham] said regarding his wife (Sarah), 'She is my sister' (See B'Reshith 12:10-16), I considered [Lot] like Avraham's own son (granting each of Lot's two sons, Moav and Ben-Ami, progenitors of the nations of Moav and Amon, respectively, as an inheritance, one of the lands of the ten nations given to Avraham)."
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