Genesis 47:9

“I have been wandering for 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My life has been short and difficult—I have not lived as long as my forefathers who also wandered from place to place.”

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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

8Pharaoh asked him, “So how long have you lived?”

10Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh again before leaving him.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:27Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.

Genesis 11:24When Nahor was 29, he had Terah.

Genesis 35:28Isaac lived to be 180

Genesis 50:26Joseph died when he was 110. After his body was embalmed, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 7:7Moses was eighty and Aaron was eighty-three when they went and spoke to Pharaoh.

Joshua 24:29Later, after all this, Joshua, son of Nun, servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten.

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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