Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.Okay, now I'm confused again. According to tradition, Moses wrote Genesis. However, there were no kings over Israel until well after Moses died (a couple centuries, I think). Critics would probably point to this as an example of the Bible being re-written after Moses, or being wrong, or having been written much later than claimed.
I think it's more likely a foretelling. After all, God knows that Israel will eventually have kings. He apparently revealed that to Moses here, a foretelling of the path Israel will take after he is there. If Moses saw this as I do now, he would have known that the people would stray from God, and go the way of the nations they came to conquer. That would have been a very depressing thought to Moses.
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