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Then Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How many years have you lived?” Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”[a] 10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and withdrew from his presence.

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  1. 47:9 Wayfarer…wayfarers: human beings are merely sojourners on earth; cf. Ps 39:13.

Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”

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) 10 Then Jacob blessed[a] Pharaoh(D) and went out from his presence.

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  1. Genesis 47:10 Or said farewell to