Genesis 47:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their 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."

Genesis 47:9 Cross References

Genesis 11:11

Shem lived 500 years after he fathered Arpachshad, and he fathered sons and daughters.

Genesis 35:28

Now Isaac’s days were 180 years.

Genesis 47:28

Now Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for 17 years, so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years.

Genesis 47:8

Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How many days are the years of your life?”

Genesis 5:27

So all of Methuselah’s days were 969 years, and then he died.

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died at 110 years old, and they embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.

Job 14:1

“A mortal born of woman, is of few days and full of turmoil.

Psalm 119:19

I am a temporary dweller on earth— do not hide Your mitzvot from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your decrees have become my songs in the house where I dwell.

Psalm 39:12

With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in. Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah

Psalm 39:13

Hear my prayer, Adonai, and listen to my cry— do not keep silent at my tears. For with You I am an outsider, a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 39:5

“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.

Exodus 6:4

I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage where they journeyed.

Exodus 7:7

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

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was not dim nor his vigor gone.

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come.

James 4:14

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

Joshua 24:29

Now it came to pass after these things that Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Adonai, died at the age of 110 years.

1 Peter 2:11

Loved ones, I urge you as strangers and sojourners to keep away from the fleshly cravings that war against the soul.