Genesis 47:9
And Jacob says to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings [are] one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Pharaoh says to Jacob, “How many [are] the days of the years of your life?”
10And Jacob blesses Pharaoh, and goes out from before Pharaoh.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he dies.
Genesis 11:24And Nahor lives twenty-nine years [[ or seventy-nine years]], and begets Terah.
Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac are one hundred and eighty years,
Genesis 50:26And Joseph dies, a son of one hundred and ten years, and they embalm him, and he is put into a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 7:7and Moses [is] a son of eighty years, and Aaron [is] a son of eighty-three years, in their speaking to Pharaoh.
Joshua 24:29And it comes to pass, after these things, that Joshua son of Nun, servant of YHWH, dies, a son of one hundred and ten 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 →