Genesis 47:28

Good News Translation

Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, until he was a hundred and forty-seven years old.

Cross References

Genesis 25:7

Abraham died at the ripe old age of 175.

Genesis 37:2

and this is the story of Jacob's family. Joseph, a young man of seventeen, took care of the sheep and goats with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's concubines. He brought bad reports to his father about what his brothers were doing.

Psalm 119:84

How much longer must I wait? When will you punish those who persecute me?

Psalm 90:10

Seventy years is all we have— eighty years, if we are strong; yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow; life is soon over, and we are gone.

Psalm 90:12

Teach us how short our life is, so that we may become wise.