Genesis 36:7

Because their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their habitation could not sustain them with regard to their cattle.

Targum Onkelos

In The 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.

In Context

6And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his flocks, and all his cattle, and all his substance which he had gotten in the land of Kenaan, and went into another land from before Jakob his brother;

8And Esau dwelt in the mountain of Seir. Esau is Edom.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:11And Lot chose to him all the plain of Yardena; and Lot went forth before, and they were separated each man from his brother.

Genesis 28:4And give the blessing of Abraham to thee and thy sons with thee, that thou mayest inherit the land of thy habitation which the Lord gave to Abraham.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 36:2-9

The Generations of Esau. ( b. c. 1780.) 1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom. 2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite; 3 And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth. 4 And Adah bare to Esau Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel; 5 And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan. 6 And Esau took his… Read the whole commentary →

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