Genesis 47:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.””
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““My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings <FI>are<Fi> an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 47:9 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 5:27So Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
- Genesis 11:11And after he had become the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
- Genesis 11:24When Nahor was 29 years old, he became the father of Terah.
- Genesis 25:7Abraham lived a total of 175 years.
- Genesis 35:28And Isaac lived 180 years.
- Genesis 47:28And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
- Genesis 50:26So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
- Exodus 6:4I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
- Exodus 7:7Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
- Deuteronomy 34:7Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
- Joshua 24:29Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
- 2 Samuel 19:32Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Job 8:8Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
- Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
- Job 42:16After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalms 39:12Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
- Psalms 39:13Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may again be cheered before I depart and am no more.”
- Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 90:3You return man to dust, saying, “Return, O sons of mortals.”
- Psalms 119:19I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
- Psalms 119:54Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.
- 2 Corinthians 5:6Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord.
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