Genesis 47:9

Translations

Modern

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Traditional

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Literal

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil 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 fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

Latin

…respondit: Dies peregrinationis meæ centum triginta annorum sunt, parvi et mali, et non pervenerunt usque ad dies patrum meorum quibus peregrinati sunt.

Original

Hebrew

English

“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

Notes

Genesis 47:7–10

When Jacob entered and left Pharaoh’s court, he blessed Pharaoh. This showed Jacob's role as God's representative (see Hebrews 7:7). God promised to bless those who blessed Abraham’s family (Genesis 12:2–3), so Jacob blessed Pharaoh and Egypt.

Genesis 45:16–47:12

This section marks a transition as the family moved from Canaan to Goshen, where they would live for the next 400years.

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Jacob Blessing Symbolic Numbers

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Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
Genesis 35:28
And Isaac lived 180 years.
Psalm 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.
Joshua 24:29
Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died at the age of 110. And they embalmed his body and placed it in a coffin in Egypt.
Exodus 7:7
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Exodus 6:4
I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Genesis 25:7–8
Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

People

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes Pharaoh: Egyptian ruler during Joseph's time

Glossary

Book of Exodus Cattle Chronology of the Bible (Old Testament) Famine Genesis, Book of Goshen Jacob Patriarchs, Period of the

Topics

Benedictions: Upon Pharaoh Egypt: Israel in Jacob Presented to Pharaoh Hospitality: Pharaoh to Jacob Israel: Lived in Goshen Jacob: Pharaoh Receives Him, and is Blessed by Jacob Joseph: Son of Jacob: Reveals Himself to his Brothers Life: Brevity and Uncertainty of Natural Life is Compared to a Pilgrimage Old Age: General Scriptures Concerning Pilgrims and Strangers: Jacob Rulers: Righteous: Pharaoh, in his Treatment of Jacob and his Family Year: Age Computed By of Jacob

Genesis 47:9

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