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Genesis 13:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" 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 13:6
Verse in Context
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4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
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 herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
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Genesis 13:1
"And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south."
Genesis 13:2
"And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold."
Genesis 13:3
"And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;"
Genesis 13:4
"Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD."
Genesis 13:5
"And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents."
Genesis 13:7
"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."
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