Genesis 47:9

And 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.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

In Context

8And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?

10And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him.

Read all of Genesis 47

Cross References

Genesis 5:27And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.

Genesis 11:24And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

Genesis 35:28And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.

Genesis 50:26So Joseph came to his death, being a hundred and ten years old: and they made his body ready, and he was put in a chest in Egypt.

Exodus 7:7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they gave the Lord's word to Pharaoh.

Joshua 24:29Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 47:9