And Abraham sojourned many days …: sojourned means “lived,” “remained,” “stayed as a foreigner.” Many days does not refer to a limited time but rather to a long time, a great amount of time, probably a number of years, or as Revised English Bible says, “for many years.”

Land of the Philistines: see verse 32.

Quoted with permission from Reyburn, William D. and Fry, Euan McG. A Handbook on Genesis. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .