Genesis 47:8

And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?

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In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

In Context

7Then Joseph made his father Jacob come before Pharaoh, and Jacob gave him his blessing.

9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:28And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.

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 →

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