Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Related for Pesachim 107:15

דורשי חמורות היו אומרים ענה פסול היה לפיכך הביא פסול לעולם שנאמר (בראשית לו, כ) אלה בני שעיר החורי וכתיב אלה בני צבעון ואיה וענה אלא מלמד שבא צבעון על אמו והוליד ממנה ענה

R'Simeon B'Gamaliel said: The mule came into existence in the days of Anah, for it is said, This is the Anah who found the mules<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.V. 'hot Springs'.');"><sup>38</sup></span> in the wilderness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gen. XXXVI, 24. ,urunv harus rnuv');"><sup>39</sup></span> Those who interpret symbolically<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'those who interpret (Scripture) as jewels', i.e., as ethical teachings. Levi connects the phrase with a beautiful and graceful gazelle, i.e., those who teach with charming and graceful interpretations.');"><sup>40</sup></span> used to say: Anah was unfit,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Pasul, i.e., the issue of an incestuous union.');"><sup>41</sup></span>

Midrash Tanchuma

You find likewise (that the expression sat also alludes to) the degeneracy of the descendants of Seir, since it is written: These are the sons of Seir the Horite, who sat on the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah (Gen. 36:20). However, Anah is elsewhere called the son of Zibeon: And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah (ibid., v. 24). We learn from this that Zibeon had sexual relations with his own mother, and conceived and begot Anah by her. Consequently, (Anah) was both (Zibeon’s) brother and his son. Later he had intercourse with his daughter-in-law, the wife of Anah, and Oholibamah was their child, as it is said: And these were the sons of Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife (ibid., v. 14), and Esau took her as a wife. Inasmuch as they were all products of incestuous relations, Scripture mentions them only to disclose their degeneracy.
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