Genesis 13:6

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn’t bear them because of their livestock.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”

I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.

Yahweh turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.

Of Kedar, and of the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck. Yahweh says: “Arise, go up to Kedar, and destroy the children of the east.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

holding faith and a good conscience, which some having thrust away made a shipwreck concerning the faith,

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

So Lot chose the Plain of the Jordan for himself. Lot traveled east, and they separated themselves from one other.

Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

but Abraham gave gifts to the sons of Abraham’s concubines. While he still lived, he sent them away from Isaac his son, eastward, to the east country.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

Then Jacob went on his journey, and came to the land of the children of the east.

The man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

two hundred female goats and twenty male goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,

Won’t their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let’s give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us.”

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number; and they came into the land to destroy it.

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east assembled themselves together; and they passed over, and encamped in the valley of Jezreel.

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the children of the east; for there fell one hundred twenty thousand men who drew sword.

Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

There was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great. He had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats; and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Ahab spoke to Naboth, saying, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it is near my house; and I will give you for it a better vineyard than it. Or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its worth in money.”

Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder; and he supplied the king of Israel with the wool of one hundred thousand lambs, and of one hundred thousand rams.

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and didn’t stay there in the land.

and over the camels was Obil the Ishmaelite; and over the donkeys was Jehdeiah the Meronothite; and over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagrite.

He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

Moreover he provided for himself cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance; for God had given him abundant possessions.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Haven’t you made a hedge around him, and around his house, and around all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

I would declare to him the number of my steps. as a prince would I go near to him.

He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

But they said, “We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall drink no wine, neither you, nor your sons, forever.

They will take their tents and their flocks. they will carry away for themselves their curtains, all their vessels, and their camels; and they will cry to them, ‘Terror on every side!’

Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.

But when the young man heard the saying, he went away sad, for he was one who had great possessions.

and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.

But Peter said to him, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money!

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

But the heavens that exist now and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion.