Genesis 47:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so Jacob reached the age of 147 years.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.

Common English Bible

²⁸ After Jacob had lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years, and after he had lived a total of 147 years,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ And he lived in it seventeen years. And all the days of his life that passed were one hundred and forty-seven years.

Genesis 47:28 Cross References

Psalm 90:10

The days of our life are seventy years or perhaps eighty, if we are strong; even then their span is only toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away.

Psalm 119:84

How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Genesis 37:2

These are the descendants of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers; he was a helper to the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

Ezra 2:38

Of Pashhur, one thousand two hundred forty-seven.

Genesis 25:7

This is the length of Abraham’s life, one hundred seventy-five years.