Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.
Genesis 11:24And Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.
Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 7:7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Joshua 24:29And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:2-13
Pharaoh's Generosity; Jacob Presented to Pharaoh. ( b. c. 1706.) 1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They… Read the whole commentary →