Genesis 13:6

American Standard 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.

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Genesis 13:6 in other translations

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 · World English Bible

Genesis 13:6 in context

  1. 4unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of Jehovah.
  2. 5And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
  3. 6And 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.
  4. 7And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.
  5. 8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we are brethren.