Genesis 36:7

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

Genesis 13:11

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

Genesis 13:6

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.

Genesis 17:8

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.”

Genesis 28:4

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.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, O Lord! Listen to my cry for help! Do not ignore my sobbing! For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land; I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.

Jeremiah 35:7

Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’

Hebrews 11:9

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.