Genesis 47:9

God's Word

Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The length of my stay on earth has been 130 years. The years of my life have been few and difficult, fewer than my ancestors’ years.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:11

After he became the father of Arpachshad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 35:28

Isaac was 180 years old

Genesis 47:28

Jacob lived in Egypt 17 years, so he lived a total of 147 years.

Genesis 47:8

Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”

Genesis 5:27

Methuselah lived a total of 969 years; then he died.

Genesis 50:26

Joseph died when he was 110 years old. His body was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Chronicles 29:15

To you we are all like our ancestors— foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There’s no hope ⌞for them⌟.

Job 14:1

“A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.

Psalm 119:19

I am a foreigner in this world. Do not hide your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your laws have become like psalms to me in this place where I am only a foreigner.

Psalm 39:12

Listen to my prayer, O Lord. Open your ear to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger like all my ancestors.

Psalm 39:13

Look away from me so that I may smile again before I go away and am no more.

Psalm 39:5

Indeed, you have made the length of my days ⌞only⌟ a few inches. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Exodus 6:4

I even made a promise  to give them Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.

Exodus 7:7

Moses was 80 years old and Aaron was 83 when they talked to Pharaoh.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always confident. We know that as long as we are living in these bodies, we are living away from the Lord.

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eyesight never became poor, and he never lost his physical strength.

Hebrews 13:14

We don’t have a permanent city here on earth, but we are looking for the city that we will have in the future.

James 4:14

You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.

Joshua 24:29

After these events, the Lord’s servant Joshua, son of Nun, died. He was 110 years old.

1 Peter 2:11

Dear friends, since you are foreigners and temporary residents ⌞in the world⌟, I’m encouraging you to keep away from the desires of your corrupt nature. These desires constantly attack you.