Genesis 36:7

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

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  • Gen 13:6 : 6 But the land could not support them while they stayed together, because their possessions were so great that they could not remain together.
  • Gen 17:8 : 8 And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
  • Gen 28:4 : 4 May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 So Lot chose for himself the entire plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus, they separated from each other.

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  • Gen 13:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

    5Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

    6But the land could not support them while they stayed together, because their possessions were so great that they could not remain together.

    7There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also dwelling in the land at that time.

  • Gen 36:6
    80%

    6Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, along with his livestock, all his animals, and all the possessions he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he moved to a land away from his brother Jacob.

  • Gen 36:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8So Esau settled in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

    9These are the descendants of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.

  • Gen 46:32
    73%

    32The men are shepherds; they tend livestock, and they have brought along their flocks, herds, and everything they own.

  • Gen 30:42-43
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    42But if the animals were weak, he would not place the branches there. So the weaker animals went to Laban, and the stronger ones to Jacob.

    43In this way, the man became exceedingly prosperous, and he had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • Gen 26:14
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    14He had many flocks, herds, and servants, so the Philistines envied him.

  • Gen 46:6
    72%

    6They also took with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan. Jacob and all his descendants went to Egypt.

  • Gen 32:16
    71%

    16Thirty camels nursing their young, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys, and ten male donkeys.

  • Gen 37:1
    71%

    1Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 34:23
    71%

    23Won't their livestock, their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree to them, and they will dwell with us."

  • Job 1:3
    71%

    3His wealth consisted of seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household. He was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

  • Isa 2:7
    70%

    7Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures. Their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

  • Gen 33:9
    70%

    9But Esau said, 'I already have plenty, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself.'

  • Deut 2:5
    70%

    5Do not provoke them to conflict, for I will not give you even a footstep of their land, because I have given Mount Seir as a possession to Esau.'

  • Gen 36:1
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    1These are the descendants of Esau, who is Edom.

  • Num 32:1
    70%

    1The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had a very large amount of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, they noticed that the place was suitable for livestock.

  • Gen 13:2
    69%

    2Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

  • Gen 30:30
    69%

    30For you had little before I came, but now it has increased greatly. The LORD has blessed you wherever I have been. But now, when can I provide for my own household?

  • Gen 31:9
    69%

    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

  • Gen 28:6
    69%

    6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him, he commanded him, 'You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.'

  • Gen 37:12
    69%

    12Now his brothers went to pasture their father’s flock near Shechem.

  • Gen 28:8
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    8Esau realized that the daughters of Canaan were displeasing to Isaac his father.

  • Gen 47:27
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    27Now Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They gained property there, were fruitful, and greatly multiplied in number.

  • Gen 31:18
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    18He drove all his livestock and all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan Aram to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

  • Deut 2:12
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    12The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them. They destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land the LORD gave them as their possession.

  • Gen 26:35
    69%

    35They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

  • 1 Chr 4:39-40
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    69%

    39They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their flocks.

    40They found rich and good pasture, and the land was spacious, quiet, and peaceful, for the former inhabitants there were from the descendants of Ham.

  • Josh 24:4
    69%

    4And to Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave the hill country of Seir to Esau to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

  • Gen 47:4
    69%

    4They also said to Pharaoh, 'We have come to sojourn in this land because there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine in the land of Canaan is severe. Please allow your servants to settle in the region of Goshen.'