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Genesis 47:8

and he questioned him: “How many are the days of the years of your life?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

In Context

7After this, Joseph brought in his father to the king, and he stood him in his sight. He blessed him,

9He responded, “The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers.”

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Cross References

Genesis 47:28And he lived in it seventeen years. And all the days of his life that passed were one hundred and forty-seven years.

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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