Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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,
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 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance which he had acquired in the land of Canaan; and went into the country from the face of his brother Jacob. 7 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. 8 Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Phrases
Cross References
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.
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land in which thou art a stranger, 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 in which thou art a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.
Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a foreign country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: