Genesis 47:9
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.
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In Context
8And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old are you?
10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
Genesis 11:24And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and brings forth Terah:
Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.
Genesis 50:26So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 7:7And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spoke unto Pharaoh.
Joshua 24:29And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an 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 →