Genesis 47:9
Jacob 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.”
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
8Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”
10After Jacob had blessed Pharaoh, he went out from Pharaoh’s presence.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27In total, Methuselah lived for nine hundred sixty and nine years; and then he died.
Genesis 11:24Nahor lived for nine and twenty years, and fathered Terah.
Genesis 35:28The length of Isaac’s life was a one hundred and eighty years.
Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Joshua 24:29After this Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, at the age of a 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 →