Genesis 47:9

And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth and thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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

8Then Pharaoh sayde vnto Iaakob, Howe olde art thou?

10And Iaakob tooke leaue of Pharaoh, and departed from the presence of Pharaoh.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:27So al the dayes of Methushelah were nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeeres: and he died.

Genesis 11:24And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah.

Genesis 35:28And the daies of Izhak were an hundreth and fourescore yeeres.

Genesis 50:26So Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten yere olde: and they enbaumed him and put him in a chest in Egypt.

Exodus 7:7(Nowe Moses was foure score yeere olde, and Aaron foure score and three, when they spake vnto Pharaoh)

Joshua 24:29And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lord died, being an hundreth and ten yeeres olde.

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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