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Genesis 47:9

And 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.)

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

8and he was asked of the king (or and the king asked him), How many be the days of the years of thy life?

10And when Jacob had blessed the king (again), he went out.

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Cross References

Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah were made nine hundred and nine and sixty years, and (then) he was dead.

Genesis 11:24Forsooth Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and (then) begat Terah;

Genesis 35:28And the days of Isaac were filled an hundred and fourscore of years; (And so the days of Isaac filled a hundred and eighty years;)

Genesis 50:26he died, when an hundred and ten years of his life were filled; and he was anointed with sweet smelling spiceries, and he was kept in a bier in Egypt. (then he died, when he was a hundred and ten years old; and he was anointed with sweet smelling spices, and he was kept in a coffin in Egypt.)

Exodus 7:7Forsooth Moses was of fourscore years, and Aaron of fourscore years and three, when they spake to Pharaoh.

Joshua 24:29And after these things Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, an hundred years eld and ten (or and he was 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 →

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