Genesis 37:1

And Jakob dwelt in the land of the habitation of his father, in the land of Kenaan.

Targum Onkelos

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 Jakob. Joseph was a son of seventeen years; he kept the flock with his brothers; and he had been brought up with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpha, the wives of his father; and Joseph brought their evil report to his father.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4I am a guest and a sojourner with you: give me the possession of a sepulchre with you, that I may bury my dead from before me.

Genesis 36:7Because their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their habitation could not sustain them with regard to 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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