Genesis 36:7

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 13:6 : 6 The 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 17:8 : 8 I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God."
  • Gen 28:4 : 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 By 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.
  • Gen 13:11 : 11 So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.

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  • Gen 13:5-7
    3 verses
    86%

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

    6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

    7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.

  • 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

  • Gen 36:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

    9 This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir:

  • 32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

  • Gen 30:42-43
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    42 but when the flock were feeble, he didn't put them in. So the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

    43 The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

  • 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

  • 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

  • 16 He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."

  • 1 Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.

  • 23 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."

  • 3 His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

  • 7 Their land is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures. Their land also is full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.

  • 9 Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."

  • 5 don't contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

  • 1 Now this is the history of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

  • 1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;

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

  • 30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it has increased to a multitude. Yahweh has blessed you wherever I turned. Now when will I provide for my own house also?"

  • 9 Thus God has taken away your father's livestock, and given them to me.

  • 6 Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a command, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"

  • 12 His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

  • 8 Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan didn't please Isaac, his father.

  • 27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

  • 18 and he took away all his livestock, and all his possessions which he had gathered, including the livestock which he had gained in Paddan Aram, to go to Isaac his father, to the land of Canaan.

  • 12 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)

  • 35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.

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

    40 They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.

  • 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

  • 4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."