Genesis 36:7

7 The brothers had too many possessions to live together in the same place; the land couldn't support their combined herds of 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 Oholibamah had Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.

6 Esau gathered up his wives, sons and daughters, and everybody in his household, along with all his livestock - all the animals and possessions he had gotten in Canaan - and moved a considerable distance away from his brother Jacob.

7 The brothers had too many possessions to live together in the same place; the land couldn't support their combined herds of livestock.

8 So Esau ended up settling in the hill country of Seir (Esau and Edom are the same).

9 So this is the family tree of Esau, ancestor of the people of Edom, in the hill country of Seir.