Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years,—Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
8And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: About how many, have been the days of the years of thy life?
10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh,—and came forth from the presence of Pharaoh.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27and all the days of Methuselah were, nine hundred and sixty-nine years,—and he died.
Genesis 11:24And Nahor lived twenty-nine years,—and begat Terah;
Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac came to be—a hundred and eighty years.
Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old,—and they embalmed him, and put him in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 7:7Now Moses, was eighty years old, and, Aaron, eighty-three years old,—when they spake unto Pharaoh.
Joshua 24:29And it came to pass, after these things, that Joshua son of Nun, servant of Yahweh, died, being a 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 →