Genesis 47:8

and he was asked of the king (or and the king asked him), How many be the days of the years of thy life?

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

In Context

7After these things Joseph brought in his father to the king, and set him before the king, and he blessed the king;

9And he answered, The days of [the] pilgrimage of my life be few and evil, of an hundred and thirty years, and those have not come to the days of my fathers, in which they were pilgrims. (And he answered, The days of my life’s wanderings be but few and far between, yea, only a hundred and thirty years, and they have not even come close to the number of days that my fathers had.)

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Cross References

Genesis 47:28And he lived therein sixteen years (or And he lived there seventeen years); and all the days of his life were made an hundred and seven and forty years.

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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