Genesis 47:9
He 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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In The King James Version
In Context
8and he questioned him: “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
10And blessing the king, he went outside.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah that passed were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died.
Genesis 11:24And so Nahor lived for twenty-nine years, and then he conceived Terah.
Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac were completed: one hundred and eighty years.
Exodus 7:7Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Joshua 24:29And after these things, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one 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 →