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Genesis 36:7

WEB

7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.

KJV

7For their riches[+] were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

BSB

7For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

FBV

7He did this because the land they were living in couldn't support both of them with all their livestock.

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Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Genesis 13:6

6The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.


Genesis 17:8

8I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”


Genesis 28:4

4and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”


Hebrews 11:9

9By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.


Genesis 13:11

11So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one another.