Genesis 13:6

that the land was not fertile enough to support them both. They had too many animals to live in the same place.

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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.

In Context

5Lot, who went with Abram, also had so many flocks and herds and tents

7At that time, the Canaanites and Perizzites were living in the land. So when there was a quarrel between Lot’s herdsmen and Abram’s herdsmen,

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Cross References

Genesis 36:7For their possessions were too many for them to live together; and the land where they sojourned could not support them because of their cattle.

Luke 12:17and he began to ask himself “What will I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 13:6-10

Lot's Separation from Abram. ( b. c. 1917.) 5 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 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. 7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. 8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my… Read the whole commentary →

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