7For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
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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.
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)Observe here, 1. Concerning Esau himself, Gen. 36:1. He is called Edom (and again, Gen. 36:8), that name by which was perpetuated the remembrance of the foolish bargain he made, when he sold his birthright for that red, that red pottage . The very mention of that name is enough to intimate the reason why his family is turned off with such a short account. Note, If men do a wrong thing they must th…
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