Genesis 47:9

He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life?

10And blessing the king, he went out.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:27And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Genesis 11:24And Nachor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Thare.

Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

Exodus 7:7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.

Joshua 24:29And after these things Josue the son of Null the servant of the 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 →

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