Genesis 47:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Jacob answered, “I have lived only a hundred and thirty years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

Cross References

Genesis 35:28

Isaac died at the ripe old age of one hundred and eighty, then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

Genesis 47:28

Jacob himself lived there for seventeen years, before dying at the age of one hundred and forty-seven.

Genesis 47:8

and the king asked him, “How old are you?”

Genesis 5:27

and died at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine.

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died in Egypt at the age of one hundred and ten; his body was embalmed and put in a coffin.

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

Job 14:1

Life is short and sorrowful for every living soul.

Psalm 119:19

I live here as a stranger. Don't keep me from knowing your commands.

Psalm 119:54

No matter where I am, your teachings fill me with songs.

Psalm 39:12

“Listen, LORD, to my prayer! My eyes are flooded with tears, as I pray to you. I am merely a stranger visiting your home as my ancestors did.

Psalm 39:13

Stop being angry with me and let me smile again before I am dead and gone.”

Psalm 39:5

You made my life short, so brief that the time means nothing to you. “Human life is but a breath,

Exodus 6:4

I made an agreement and promised them the land of Canaan, where they were living as foreigners.

Exodus 7:7

and spoke to the king. At the time, Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron was eighty-three.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So always be cheerful! As long as we are in these bodies, we are away from the Lord.

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyesight was still good, and his body was strong.

Hebrews 13:14

On this earth we don't have a city that lasts for ever, but we are waiting for such a city.

James 4:14

What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.

Joshua 24:29

Not long afterwards, the LORD's servant Joshua died at the age of one hundred and ten.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, you are foreigners and strangers on this earth. So I beg you not to surrender to those desires that fight against you.