Genesis 37:1

And Iacob dwelt in the lande wherein his father was a straunger yt is to saye in the lande of Canaan.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2And these are the generations of Iacob: when Ioseph was.xvij. yere olde he kepte shepe with his brethren and the lad was with the sonnes of Bilha and of Zilpha his fathers wyues. And he brought vnto their father an euyll saynge yt was of them.

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Cross References

Genesis 23:4I am a straunger ad a foryner amonge yow geue me a possession to bury in with you that I may bury my dead oute of my sighte.

Genesis 36:7for their ryches was so moch that they coude not dwell together and that the land where in they were straungers coude not receaue the: because of their catell.

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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