Verse 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.

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.