Genesis 36:7
Genesis chapter 36 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
Context
v.6And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
v.7This passage
v.8And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 11:9
By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose him all the Plain of the Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
- Genesis 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
- Genesis 28:4
and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.
- Genesis 13:6
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.