Genesis 47:28

Contemporary English Version 1995

Jacob himself lived there for 17 years, before dying at the age of 147.

Cross References

Psalm 90:10

We can expect seventy years, or maybe eighty, if we are healthy, but even our best years bring trouble and sorrow. Suddenly our time is up, and we disappear.

Psalm 119:84

I am your servant! How long must I suffer? When will you punish those troublemakers?

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to use wisely all the time we have.

Genesis 37:2

and this is the story of his family. When Jacob's son Joseph was 17 years old, he took care of the sheep with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah. But he was always telling his father all sorts of bad things about his brothers.

Genesis 25:7

Abraham died at the ripe old age of 175.