Genesis 13:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 36:6-7 : 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother 7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.
  • Eccl 5:10-11 : 10 Covetousness The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile. 11 When someone’s prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?
  • 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
  • Luke 12:17-18 : 17 so he thought to himself,‘What should I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ 18 Then he said,‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

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    7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.

  • Gen 13:7-9
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    7So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen.(Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

    8Abram said to Lot,“Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.

    9Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

  • Gen 13:5
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    5Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

  • Gen 13:11-12
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    11Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

    12Abram settled in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled among the cities of the Jordan plain and pitched his tents next to Sodom.

  • Gen 12:5-6
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    5And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Haran, and they left for the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

    6Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem.(At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

  • Gen 13:1-2
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    1Abram’s Solution to the Strife So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

    2(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)

  • Gen 14:11-12
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    11The four victorious kings took all the possessions and food of Sodom and Gomorrah and left.

    12They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions when they left, for Lot was living in Sodom.

  • Gen 12:10
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    10The Promised Blessing Jeopardized There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

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    13The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.

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    14After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram,“Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

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  • Deut 2:9
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    9Then the LORD said to me,“Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.

  • Gen 34:23
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    23If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

  • Josh 17:12
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    12But the men of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed to remain in those areas.

  • Gen 37:4
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    4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.

  • Gen 30:42
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    42But if the animals were weaker, he did not set the branches there. So the weaker animals ended up belonging to Laban and the stronger animals to Jacob.

  • Gen 15:13
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    13Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

  • Gen 11:31
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  • Num 13:19
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    19and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,

  • Acts 7:6
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    6But God spoke as follows:‘Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

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    12When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident foreigners within it,

  • Deut 1:12
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    12But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

  • Gen 11:2
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    2When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

  • Gen 14:24
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    24I will take nothing except compensation for what the young men have eaten. As for the share of the men who went with me– Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre– let them take their share.”

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    13But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

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    40They found fertile and rich pasture; the land was very broad, undisturbed and peaceful. Indeed some Hamites had been living there prior to that.

  • 2 Sam 14:6
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    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

  • Gen 47:4
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    4Then they said to Pharaoh,“We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

  • Gen 13:17
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    17Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

  • Acts 7:11
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    11Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.