Genesis 36:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ For their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they were staying could not support them because of their livestock.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For their great flocks and herds and possessions [which they had collected] made it impossible for them to dwell together; the land in which they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.

Common English Bible

⁷ They had so many possessions that they couldn’t live together. The land where they lived as immigrants couldn’t support all of their livestock.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For they were very wealthy and were not able to live together. Neither was the land of their sojourn able to sustain them, because of the multitude of their flocks.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.

Genesis 36:7 Cross References

Genesis 13:11

So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.

Genesis 13:6

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

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”

Genesis 28:4

May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alien, land that God gave to Abraham.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Jeremiah 35:7

nor shall you ever build a house or sow seed, nor shall you plant a vineyard or even own one, but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you reside.’

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he stayed for a time in the land he had been promised, as in a foreign land, living in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.