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Genesis 47:7-9
Amplified Bible
Genesis 47:7-9
Amplified Bible
7 Then Joseph brought Jacob (Israel) his father and presented him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh asked Jacob, [a]“How old are you?” 9 Jacob 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).
Genesis 47:7-9
New International Version
Genesis 47:7-9
New International Version
7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him(A) before Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed[a] Pharaoh,(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.(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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