Genesis 37:1

And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Chanaan.

Brenton Septuagint

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 the generations of Jacob. And Joseph was seventeen years old, feeding the sheep of his father with his brethren, being young; with the sons of Balla, and with the sons of Zelpha, the wives of his father; + 37:2 Or, according to some copies, they brought an evil report of Joseph, etc.and Joseph brought to Israel their father their evil reproach.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying-place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

Genesis 36:7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojourning could not bear them, because of the abundance of their possessions.

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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