Genesis 47:9
7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
8 “How many years have you lived?” Pharaoh asked.
“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.”
10 Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.
11 So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “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.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
- ASV
- And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
- DARBY
- And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
- BLB
- 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.”
- ÅB
- Jakob svarte Farao: Min utlendighets år er hundre og tretti år; få og onde har mine leveår vært, og de har ikke nådd mine fedres leveår i deres utlendighets tid.
- OTB
- Jakob svarte: “Årene av min vandring er 130. Mine år har vært få og vanskelige, og når ikke opp til mine forfedres levetid under deres vandring.”
- B1930
- Jakob svarte Farao: Min utlendighets år er hundre og tretti år; få og onde har mine leveår vært, og de har ikke nådd mine fedres leveår i deres utlendighets tid.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Read in contextPsalms 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.
Read in contextGenesis 35:28
And Isaac lived 180 years.
Read in contextPsalms 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
Read in contextExodus 7:7
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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.
Read in contextExodus 6:4
I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
Read in contextJames 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.
Read in context