Genesis 47:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and they have not attained to those of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ 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.

Common English Bible

⁹ Jacob said to Pharaoh, “I’ve been a traveler for 130 years. My years have been few and difficult. They don’t come close to the years my ancestors lived during their travels.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ He responded, "The days of my sojourn are one hundred and thirty years, few and unworthy, and they do not reach even to the days of the sojourning of my fathers."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil. And they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Genesis 47:9 Cross References

Genesis 11:11

and Shem lived after the birth of Arpachshad five hundred years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 35:28

Now the days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

Genesis 47:28

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.

Genesis 47:8

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the years of your life?”

Genesis 5:27

Thus all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.

Genesis 50:26

And Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old; he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Psalm 119:19

I live as an alien in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes have been my songs wherever I make my home.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry; do not hold your peace at my tears. For I am your passing guest, an alien, like all my forebears.

Psalm 39:13

Turn your gaze away from me, that I may smile again, before I depart and am no more.”

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they resided as aliens.

Exodus 7:7

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always confident, even though we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord—

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died; his sight was unimpaired, and his vigor had not abated.

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Joshua 24:29

After these things Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred ten years old.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.