Genesis 37:1

So Jacob dwelt in the land of the sojournings of his father,—in the land of Canaan.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, when seventeen years old, was shepherding with his brethren among the flocks, and, he, being a youth, was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah wives of his father,—so then Joseph brought in the talk about them—something bad, unto their father.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4A sojourner and settler, am I with you,—Give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, That I may bury my dead, from before me.

Genesis 36:7For their substance had become too great for them to dwell together,—neither could the land of their sojournings sustain them, because of their herds,

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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