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Genesis 13:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together. "
Genesis 13:6
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4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name.
5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they couldn’t live together.
7 There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
8 Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
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Genesis 13:1
"Abram went up out of Egypt—he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him—into the South."
Genesis 13:2
"Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold."
Genesis 13:3
"He went on his journeys from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,"
Genesis 13:4
"to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the LORD’s name."
Genesis 13:5
"Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents."
Genesis 13:7
"There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time."
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