Genesis 47:9
Good News Translation
Jacob answered, "My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings."

New Revised Standard Version
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

Contemporary English Version
Jacob answered, "I have lived only 130 years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine."

New American Bible
Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

The days.

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 119:19,54 I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore having always confidence, knowing that while we are in the body we are absent from the Lord.

Hebrews 11:9-16 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. . . .

Hebrews 13:14 For, we have not here a lasting city: but we seek one that is to come.

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul,

and hundred.

Job 14:1 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 89:47,48 Remember what my substance is: for hast thou made all the children of men in vain? . . .

Psalm 90:3-12 Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men. . . .

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

have not.

Genesis 47:28 And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.

Genesis 5:27 And all the days of Mathusala were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Genesis 11:11,24,25 And Sem lived after he begot Arphaxad, five hundred years, and begot sons and daughters. . . .

Genesis 25:7,8 And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years. . . .

Genesis 35:28 And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

Genesis 50:26 And he died, being a hundred and ten years old. And being embalmed, he was laid in a coffin in Egypt.

Exodus 6:4 And I made a covenant with them, to give them the land of Chanaan, the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers.

Exodus 7:7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.

Deuteronomy 34:7 Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, neither were his teeth moved.

Joshua 24:29 And after these things Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, being a hundred and ten years old:

2 Samuel 19:32-35 Now Berzellai the Galaadite was of a great age, that is to say, fourscore years old, and he provided the king with sustenance when he abode in the camp: for he was a man exceeding rich. . . .

Job 8:8,9 For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: . . .

Job 42:16,17 And Job lived after these things, a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children's children, unto the fourth generation, . . .

Context
Jacob Settles in Goshen
8And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life? 9He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.10And blessing the king, he went out.…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:9
By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.

Hebrews 11:13
All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.

Genesis 25:7
And the days of Abraham's life were a hundred and seventy-five years.

Genesis 25:8
And decaying he died in a good old age, and having lived a long time, and being full of days: and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 35:28
And the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

Genesis 47:8
And being asked by him: How many are the days of the years of thy life?

Genesis 47:28
And he lived in it seventeen years: and all the days of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, and my supplication: give ear to my tears. Be no silent: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

Psalm 119:19
I am a sojourner on the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54
Thy justifications were the subject of my song, in the place of my pilgrimage.

Genesis 47:8
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