Genesis Chapter 37 verse 1 Holy Bible
And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
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Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.
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And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned -- 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.
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And Jacob dwelt in the land in which his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
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Jacob lived in the land of his father's travels, in the land of Canaan.
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And Jacob dwelleth in the land of his father's sojournings -- in the land of Canaan.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVer 1. - And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger (literally, in the land of the sojourning, s of his father), in the land of Canaan. This verse is not the commencement of the ensuing (Keil, Kalisch, Lange, etc.), but the concluding sentence of the present, section, the adversative particle ו, corresponding to the δε of the LXX., introducing a contrast between Esau, who dwelt in Mount Seir, and Jacob, who dwelt in the land of Canaan, and the following verse beginning the next division of the book with the customary formula, "These are the generations" (LXX., some MS., Quarry, p. 523). Rosenmüller less happily connects the present verse with Genesis 35:29; the Vulgate begins the next section with ver. 3. A similar division of verses to that proposed will be found in Genesis 25:11.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXXXVII.(1) And Jacob . . . --This verse is not the beginning of a new section, but the conclusion of the Toldoth Esau. In Genesis 36:6, we read that Esau went into a land away from Jacob. Upon this follows in Genesis 37:8, "And Esau dwelt in Mount Seir;" and now the necessary information concerning the other brother is given to us, "And Jacob dwelt in the land . . . of Canaan." In the Hebrew the conjunctions are the same.