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Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”[a] And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors[b] in the days of their sojourning.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:8 Literally “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
  2. Genesis 47:9 Or “fathers”