Genesis 12:5

12:5 And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew ¹  Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired ²  in Haran, and they left for ³  the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.

Genesis 13:6

13:6 But the land could ⁴  not support them while they were living side by side. ⁵  Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live ⁶  alongside one another.

Genesis 30:30

30:30 Indeed, ⁷  you had little before I arrived, ⁸  but now your possessions have increased many times over. ⁹  The Lord has blessed you wherever I worked. ¹⁰  But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?” ¹¹ 

Genesis 36:7

36:7 because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled ¹²  was not able to support them because of their livestock.

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¹ tn Heb “the son of his brother.”

² tn For the semantic nuance “acquire [property]” for the verb עָשָׂה (’asah), see BDB 795 s.v. עָשָׂה.

³ tn Heb “went out to go.”

⁴ tn The potential nuance for the perfect tense is necessary here, and supported by the parallel clause that actually uses “to be able.”

⁵ 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.

⁶ tn The same infinitive occurs here, serving as the object of the verb.

⁷ tn Or “for.”

⁸ tn Heb “before me.”

⁹ tn Heb “and it has broken out with respect to abundance.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “at my foot.”

¹¹ tn Heb “How long [until] I do, also I, for my house?”

¹² tn Heb “land of their settlements.”