Genesis 37:1

Now Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father sojourned.

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In The King James Version

And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

In Context

2And these are his generations. Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers, when he was still a boy. And he was with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, the wives of his father. And he accused his brothers to their father of a most sinful crime.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4“I am a newcomer and a sojourner among you. Give me the right of a sepulcher among you, so that I may bury my dead.”

Genesis 36:7For they were very wealthy and were not able to live together. Neither was the land of their sojourn able to sustain them, because of the multitude of their flocks.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 37:1

At this chapter begins the story of Joseph, who, in every subsequent chapter but one to the end of this book, makes the greatest figure. He was Jacob's eldest son by his beloved wife Rachel, born, as many eminent men were, of a mother that had been long barren. His story is so remarkably divided between his humiliation and his exaltation that we cannot avoid seeing something of Christ in it, who was first humbled and then exalted, and, in many instances, so as to answer the type of Joseph. It also shows the lot of… Read the whole commentary →

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