Genesis 47:7-9

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⁷Then Joseph brought Jacob (Israel) his father and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. ⁸And Pharaoh asked Jacob, ^[a]“How old are you?” ⁹Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The ^[b]years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have ^[c]not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

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Genesis 47:8 Lit how many are the days of the years of your life?
Genesis 47:9 Lit the days of the years of.
Genesis 47:9 Abraham, Jacob’s grandfather, had lived to be a hundred and seventy-five years old; Isaac, Jacob’s father, lived to be a hundred and eighty. Jacob lived seventeen years after making this statement to Pharaoh, in which time he had an opportunity to get a much more optimistic view of God’s treatment of him. He died at a hundred and forty-seven, having said, “The Angel...has redeemed me continually from all evil” (Gen 48:16).