Genesis 37:1

And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojourning, in the land of Canaan.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers; and he was as a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought evil reports of them unto his father.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4A stranger and a sojourner I am with you; give me a possession for a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 36:7For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land of their sojourning could not bear them, because of their cattle.

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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