Genesis 33:11

33:11 Please take my present ¹  that was brought to you, for God has been generous ²  to me and I have all I need.” ³  When Jacob urged him, he took it. ⁴ 

Genesis 13:6

13:6 But the land could ⁵  not support them while they were living side by side. ⁶  Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live ⁷  alongside one another.

¹ tn Heb “blessing.” It is as if Jacob is trying to repay what he stole from his brother twenty years earlier.

² tn Or “gracious,” but in the specific sense of prosperity.

³ tn Heb “all.”

⁴ tn Heb “and he urged him and he took.” The referent of the first pronoun in the sequence (“he”) has been specified as “Jacob” in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn The potential nuance for the perfect tense is necessary here, and supported by the parallel clause that actually uses “to be able.”

⁶ 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.

⁷ tn The same infinitive occurs here, serving as the object of the verb.