Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharao, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Pharao said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of thy life?
10And Jacob blessed Pharao, and departed from him.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Mathusala which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.
Genesis 11:24And Nachor lived + 11:24 Alex. 79 years.a hundred and seventy-nine years, and begot Tharrha.
Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac which he lived were an hundred and eighty years.
Genesis 50:26And Joseph died, aged an hundred and ten years; and + 50:26 Gr. buried him.they prepared his corpse, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 7:7And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron his brother was eighty-three years old, when he spoke to Pharao.
Joshua 24:29And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that + 24:29 Gr. drew out the time with Joshua. Hebraism.lived as long as Joshua, and all that knew all the works of the Lord which he wrought for Israel.
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 →