⁶ and the land could not support both of them living together because their possessions were so great that they could not live together.

⁹ But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.^(A)

¹⁰ The lover of money will not be satisfied with money, nor the lover of wealth with gain. This also is vanity.^(A)

¹¹ When goods increase, those who eat them increase, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

⁶ Then Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, his cattle, all his livestock, and all the property he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and he moved to a land some distance from his brother Jacob.^{(A) 7} For their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they were staying could not support them because of their livestock.^(B)

¹⁷ And he thought to himself, ‘What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?’ ¹⁸ Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.