Genesis 47:9
And Ya'akov said unto Pharaoh, The days of the shanim of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty shanah; few and bad 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 avot in the days of their pilgrimage.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Pharaoh said unto Ya'akov, How old art thou?
10And Ya'akov made a brocha on Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Metushelach were nine hundred sixty and nine shanah; and he died.
Genesis 11:24And Nachor lived nine and twenty shanah, and fathered Terach;
Genesis 35:28And the days of Yitzchak were me'at shanah u'shemonim shanah.
Genesis 50:26So Yosef died, being in age one hundred and ten shanim; and they embalmed him, and he was placed in an aron in Mitzrayim.
Exodus 7:7And Moshe was fourscore years old, and Aharon fourscore three years, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
Joshua 24:29And it came to pass after these things, that Yehoshua ben Nun Eved Hashem, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
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 →