Genesis 47:8

Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, ‘How many years have you lived?’

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In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

In Context

7Joseph also brought in Jacob his father and presented him to Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

9Jacob answered, ‘I have lived a hundred and thirty years; few and hard have been the years of my life, and they have not been as many as those that my ancestors lived on earth.’

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Cross References

Genesis 47:28Jacob lived for seventeen years in Egypt and died at the age of one hundred and twenty-seven.

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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