Genesis 47:9

Good News Translation

Jacob answered, “My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:11

After that, he lived another 500 years and had other children.

Genesis 35:28

Isaac lived to be a hundred and eighty years old

Genesis 47:28

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

Genesis 47:8

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

Genesis 5:27

and died at the age of 969.

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died in Egypt at the age of a hundred and ten. They embalmed his body and put it in a coffin.

1 Chronicles 29:15

You know, O Lord, that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.

Job 14:1

We are all born weak and helpless. All lead the same short, troubled life.

Psalm 119:19

I am here on earth for just a little while; do not hide your commands from me.

Psalm 119:54

During my brief earthly life I compose songs about your commands.

Psalm 39:12

Hear my prayer, Lord, and listen to my cry; come to my aid when I weep. Like all my ancestors I am only your guest for a little while.

Psalm 39:13

Leave me alone so that I may have some happiness before I go away and am no more.

Psalm 39:5

How short you have made my life! In your sight my lifetime seems nothing. Indeed every living being is no more than a puff of wind,

Exodus 6:4

I also made my covenant with them, promising to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they had lived as foreigners.

Exodus 7:7

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

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always full of courage. We know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord's home.

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; he was as strong as ever, and his eyesight was still good.

Hebrews 13:14

For there is no permanent city for us here on earth; we are looking for the city which is to come.

James 4:14

You don't even know what your life tomorrow will be! You are like a puff of smoke, which appears for a moment and then disappears.

Joshua 24:29

After that, the Lord's servant Joshua son of Nun died at the age of a hundred and ten.

1 Peter 2:11

I appeal to you, my friends, as strangers and refugees in this world! Do not give in to bodily passions, which are always at war against the soul.