²⁸ Jacob lived in Egypt^(A) seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.^(B)

⁸ Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”

⁹ And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty.^(A) My years have been few and difficult,^(B) and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.^(C)”

² This is the account^(A) of Jacob’s family line.

Joseph,^(B) a young man of seventeen,^(C) was tending the flocks^(D) with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah^(E) and the sons of Zilpah,^(F) his father’s wives, and he brought their father a bad report^(G) about them.