Genesis 13:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ and the land could not support both of them living together because their possessions were so great that they could not live together.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Now the land was not able to nourish and support them so they could dwell together, for their possessions were too great for them to live together.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

⁶ They had so many possessions between them that the land couldn’t support both of them. They could no longer live together.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Neither was the land able to contain them, so that they might dwell together. Indeed, their substance was so great that they could not live in common.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Neither was the land able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, and they could not dwell together.

Genesis 13:6 Cross References

Genesis 12:16

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram, and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 12:5

Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot and all the possessions that they had gathered and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran, and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan,

Genesis 13:2

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

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.