World English Bible
Genesis 13:6
“The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.”
Verse in context — Genesis 13
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
Abram said to Lot, "Please, let there be no strife between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are relatives.
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