Genesis 37:1

Jacob lived in the land where his father was staying, in the land of Canaan.

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

In Context

2These were the events concerning Jacob. Joseph, who was a young man seventeen years old, was guarding the flock with his brothers. He was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an unfavorable report about them to their father.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner among you. Please grant me a property for a burial place among you, so that I may bury my dead.”

Genesis 36:7He did this because their possessions were too many for them to stay together. The land where they had settled could not support 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 →

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