Genesis 37:1 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹ And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ SO JACOB dwelt in the land in which his father had been a stranger and sojourner, in the land of Canaan.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

Common English Bible

¹ Jacob lived in the land of Canaan where his father was an immigrant.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Now Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father sojourned.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan wherein his father sojourned.

Genesis 37:1 Cross References

Genesis 17:8

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Genesis 23:4

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Genesis 28:4

and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.

Genesis 36:43

duke Mag´di-el, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

Genesis 36:7

For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.