Genesis 47:9

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Majority Standard Bible

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

8“How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.

10Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.

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Cross References

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

Genesis 11:24When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.

Genesis 35:28And Isaac lived 180 years.

Genesis 50:26So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.

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

Joshua 24:29Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

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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