Genesis 47:8

And Pharao axed Iacob how old art thou?

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

In Context

7And Ioseph brought in Iacob his father and sett him before Pharao And Iacob blessed Pharao.

9And Iacob sayde vnto Pharao: the dayes of my pilgremage are an hundred and.xxx. yeres. Few and euell haue the dayes of my lyfe bene and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of the lyfe of my fathers in the dayes of their pilgremages.

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Cross References

Genesis 47:28Moreouer Iacob lyued in the lande of Egipte.xvij. yeres so that the hole age of Iacob was an hundred and.xlvij. yere.

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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