Genesis 37:1
And Jacob dwells in the land of his father’s sojournings—in the land of Canaan.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 23:4“A sojourner and a settler I [am] with you; give to me a possession of a burying-place with you, and I bury my dead from before me.”
Genesis 36:7for their substance was more abundant than to dwell together, and the land of their sojournings was not able to bear them because of their livestock;
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 →