Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
For their possessions were too many for them to live together,
International Standard Version
because their holdings were too vast to allow them to stay together, since the land where they had settled was not able to support all of their livestock.
A Conservative Version
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their sojourning could not bear them because of their cattle.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
For their [great flocks and herds and] possessions made it impossible for them to live together [in the same region]; the land in which they lived temporarily could not support them because of their livestock.
Darby Translation
For their property was too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were sojourners could not bear them, because of their cattle.
Julia Smith Translation
For their possessions were much above dwelling together; and the land of their sojournings will not be able to bear them from the face of their possessions.
King James 2000
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land in which they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For their possessions were {too many to live together}, so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock.
Modern King James verseion
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together. And the land of their travels could not bear them because of their cattle.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For their riches was so much that they could not dwell together; and that the land wherein they were strangers could not receive them, because of their cattle.
NET Bible
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.
New Heart English Bible
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.
The Emphasized Bible
For their substance had become too great for them to dwell together, - neither could the land of their sojournings sustain them, because of their herds,
Webster
For their riches were more than that they might dwell together: and the land wherein they were strangers could not sustain them, because of their cattle.
World English Bible
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.
Youngs Literal Translation
for their substance was more abundant than to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings was not able to bear them because of their cattle;
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 36:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Descendants Of Esau
6 Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the people of his house, and his beasts and his cattle and all his goods which he had got together in the land of Canaan, and went into the land of Seir, away from his brother Jacob. 7 For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle. 8 So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 13:6
So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.
Genesis 17:8
And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
Genesis 28:4
And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
Genesis 13:11
So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage: