Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob (A)blessed Pharaoh. Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, (B)“The days of the years of my [a]pilgrimage are (C)one hundred and thirty years; (D)few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and (E)they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:9 Lit. sojourning

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him(A) before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed[a] Pharaoh,(B) Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.(C) My years have been few and difficult,(D) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:7 Or greeted