Genesis 36:7
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 13:6 : 6 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.
- Gen 17:8 : 8 I will give the whole land of Canaan– the land where you are now residing– to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
- Gen 28:4 : 4 May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”
- Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.
- Gen 13:11 : 11 Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.
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5Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.
6But 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.
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.)
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6Esau 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
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8So Esau(also known as Edom) lived in the hill country of Seir.
9This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the hill country of Seir.
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32The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
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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.
43In this way Jacob became extremely prosperous. He owned large flocks, male and female servants, camels, and donkeys.
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14He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
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6Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.
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16He entrusted them to his servants, who divided them into herds. He told his servants,“Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”
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1Joseph’s Dreams But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.
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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.”
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3His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
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7Their land is full of gold and silver; there is no end to their wealth. Their land is full of horses; there is no end to their chariots.
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9But Esau said,“I have plenty, my brother. Keep what belongs to you.”
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5Do not be hostile toward them, because I am not giving you any of their land, not even a footprint, for I have given Mount Seir as an inheritance for Esau.
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1The Descendants of Esau What follows is the account of Esau(also known as Edom).
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1The Petition of the Reubenites and Gadites Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,
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2(Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)
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30Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”
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9In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.
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6Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him off to Paddan Aram to find a wife there. As he blessed him, Isaac commanded him,“You must not marry a Canaanite woman.”
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12When his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem,
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8Then Esau realized that the Canaanite women were displeasing to his father Isaac.
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27Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.
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18He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.
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12Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the LORD gave them.)
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35They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.
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39They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east of the valley, looking for pasture for their sheep.
40They found fertile and rich pasture; the land was very broad, undisturbed and peaceful. Indeed some Hamites had been living there prior to that.
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4and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
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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.”