Genesis 37:1
Good News Translation
Jacob continued to live in the land of Canaan, where his father had lived,

New Revised Standard Version
Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan.

Contemporary English Version
Jacob lived in the land of Canaan, where his father Isaac had lived,

New American Bible
Jacob settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

A.

2276. B.C.

1728.
wherein his father was a stranger. Heb. of his father's sojournings.

Genesis 17:8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Genesis 23:4 I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying place with you, that I may bury my dead.

Genesis 28:4 And give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.

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Genesis 36:7 For they were exceeding rich, and could not dwell together: neither was the land in which they sojourned able to bear them, for the multitude of their flocks.

Hebrews 11:9-16 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. . . .

Context
Joseph's Dreams
1And Jacob dwelt in the land of Chanaan, wherein his father sojourned.2And these are his generations: Joseph, when he was sixteen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren, being but a boy: and he was with the sons of Bala and of Zelpha his father's wives: and he accused his brethren to his father of a most wicked crime.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Genesis 28:4
And give the blessings of Abraham to thee, and to thy seed after thee: that thou mayst possess the land of thy sojournment, which he promised to thy grandfather.

Genesis 36:43
Duke Magdiel, duke Hiram: these are the dukes of Edom dwelling in the land of their government; the same is Esau, the father of the Edomites.

Genesis 36:43
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