For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.
Parallel translations
- KJV For 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 For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.
- NKJV For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.
- NASB For their possessions had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they resided could not support them because of their livestock.
- NLT There was not enough land to support them both because of all the livestock and possessions they had acquired.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 13:6The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
- Gen 17:8I 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.”
- Gen 28:4and 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.”
- Gen 13:11So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Heb 11:9By 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.
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