Genesis 47:9
And Jakob said to Pharoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their pilgrimage.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Pharoh said to Jakob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
10And Jakob blessed Pharoh, and went out from before Pharoh.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methushelach were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died.
Genesis 11:24And Nachor lived twenty and nine years, and begat Terach.
Genesis 35:28And the days of Izhak were an hundred and eighty years.
Genesis 50:26And Joseph died, the son of a hundred and ten years, and they embalmed him, and laid him in an ark in Mizraim.
Exodus 7:7And Mosheh was the son of eighty years, and Aharon the son of eighty and three years, in their speaking with Pharoh.
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 →