Genesis 36:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings could not support them because of their herds.

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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.

Genesis 36:7 Cross References

Genesis 13:11

So Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Yardĕ

Genesis 13:6

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

Genesis 17:8

“And I shall give to you and your seed after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kenaʽ

Genesis 28:4

and give you the blessing of Aḇ

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O יהוה, And give ear to my cry; Do not be silent at my tears; For I am a stranger with You, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Jeremiah 35:7

‘And do not build a house, neither sow seed, nor plant a vineyard, nor have any of these, but dwell in tents all your days, so that you live many days on the face of the land where you are sojourners.’

Hebrews 11:9

By belief, he sojourned in the land of promise as a stranger, dwelling in tents with Yitsḥ