Genesis 13:6

13:6 But the land could ¹  not support them while they were living side by side. ²  Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live ³  alongside one another.

Genesis 36:7

36:7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled ⁴  was not able to support them because of their livestock.

Genesis 46:6

46:6 Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt. ⁵ 

Genesis 12:5

12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew ⁶  Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired ⁷  in Haran, and they left for ⁸  the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

¹ tn The potential nuance for the perfect tense is necessary here, and supported by the parallel clause that actually uses “to be able.”

² tn The infinitive construct לָשֶׁבֶת (lashevet, from יָשַׁב, yashav) explains what it was that the land could not support: “the land could not support them to live side by side.” See further J. C. de Moor, “Lexical Remarks Concerning Yahad and Yahdaw,” VT 7 (1957): 350-55.

³ tn The same infinitive occurs here, serving as the object of the verb.

⁴ tn Heb “land of their settlements.”

⁷ tn Heb “and they took their livestock and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan and they went to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him.” The order of the clauses has been rearranged in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁰ tn Heb “the son of his brother.”

¹¹ tn For the semantic nuance “acquire [property]” for the verb עָשָׂה (’asah), see BDB 795 s.v. עָשָׂה.

¹² tn Heb “went out to go.”