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John Gill's Exposition on Genesis 36:7

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For their riches were more than that they might dwell together, etc.] And therefore it was proper to part, as Abraham and Lot had done before, (<011306>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.
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