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Read Full Chapter (Genesis 13) Genesis 13:6 KJV
"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 in Context (Verses 3–9 KJV)
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And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
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Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
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¶ And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
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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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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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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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Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.