Genesis 36:7

7 For their possessions were {too many to live together}, so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock.

Genesis 36:7 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 36:7

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together,
&c.] And therefore it was proper to part, as Abraham and Lot had done before, ( Genesis 13:6 ) ; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them, because
of their cattle;
their cattle were so numerous that they could not get pasturage for them, there not being enough left them by the inhabitants of it for them to occupy; nor could they hire land of them sufficient for them both; they being not possessors but sojourners in it, and therefore could have no more of it than the inhabitants thought fit to let unto them.

Genesis 36:7 In-Context

5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush and Jalam, and Korah. These [are] the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

6 And Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters, and all the persons of his household, and his sheep and goats, and all his cattle, and all the goods that he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to a land away from his brother Jacob.

7 For their possessions were {too many to live together}, so that the land of their sojourning was not able to support them on account of their livestock.

8 So Esau dwelled in the hill country of Seir (Esau, that [is] Edom).

9 Now these [are] the descendants of Esau, the father of Edom, in the hill country of Seir.

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "much from living together"