Genesis 13:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

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  • Gen 36:6-7 : 6 Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob. 7 For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.
  • Eccl 5:10-11 : 10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them? 11 The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.
  • Luke 12:17-18 : 17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit. 18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

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  • 7 For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.

  • Gen 13:7-9
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    84%

    7 And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

    8 Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

    9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

  • 5 And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

  • Gen 13:11-12
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    11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

    12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 12:5-6
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    5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

    6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.

  • Gen 13:1-2
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    1 And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

    2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

  • Gen 14:11-12
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    11 And the four kings took all the goods and food from Sodom and Gomorrah and went on their way.

    12 And in addition they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who was living in Sodom, and all his goods.

  • 10 And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

  • Gen 26:13-14
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    13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

    14 For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

  • 14 And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

  • 1 And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

  • 9 And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.

  • 23 Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

  • 12 But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land.

  • 4 And because his brothers saw that Joseph was dearer to his father than all the others, they were full of hate for him, and would not say a kind word to him.

  • 42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.

  • 13 And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

  • 31 And Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, the son of Haran, and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, the wife of his son Abram and they went out from Ur of the Chaldees, to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and were there for some time.

  • 19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;

  • 6 And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

  • 12 When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

  • 12 How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

  • 2 And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.

  • 24 Give me nothing but the food which the fighting-men who went with me have had; but let Aner and Eshcol and Mamre have their part of the goods.

  • 13 Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

  • 40 And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

  • 6 And I had two sons, and the two of them had a fight in the field, and there was no one to come between them, and one with a blow put the other to death.

  • 4 And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

  • 17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

  • 11 Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.