Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my travels are a hundred and thirty. The years of my life have been few and painful. They have not been as long as those of my ancestors.”

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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

8Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How long have you lived?”

10Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:27Methuselah lived 969 years. Then he died.

Genesis 11:24When Nahor had live twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.

Genesis 35:28Isaac lived for one hundred eighty years.

Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, 110 years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

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

Joshua 24:29After these things Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being 110 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 →

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