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Then Joseph called his father Jacob to come in to meet Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Then Pharaoh said to him, “How old are you?”

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “I have had a short life with many troubles. I am only 130 years old. My father and his ancestors lived to be much older than I am.”

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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