Genesis 37:1
Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Now Jacob lived in the land where his father had resided, the land of Canaan.
- KJV
- And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
- WEB
- Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan.
- ASV
- And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father`s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
- DARBY
- And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned in the land of Canaan.
- BLB
- And Jacob dwelt in the land of the sojournings of his father, in the land of Canaan.
- ÅB
- Men Jakob bodde i det land hvor hans far hadde bodd som fremmed, i Kana'ans land.
- OTB
- Jakob bodde i landet hvor hans far hadde bodd som fremmed, i Kanaans land.
- B1930
- Men Jakob bodde i det land hvor hans far hadde bodd som fremmed, i Kana'ans land.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 17:8
And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Read in contextGenesis 23:4
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Read in contextHebrews 11:9–16
By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.
Read in contextGenesis 36:7
For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.
Read in contextGenesis 28:4
And may He give the blessing of Abraham to you and your descendants, so that you may possess the land where you dwell as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
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