Genesis 47:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Then Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

Cross References

Genesis 25:8

Then he breathed his last, dying at a ripe old age, grown old after a full life; and he was gathered to his people.

Genesis 47:7

Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented him to Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob replied: “The years I have lived as a wayfarer amount to a hundred and thirty. Few and hard have been these years of my life, and they do not compare with the years that my ancestors lived as wayfarers.”

2 Samuel 19:34

The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for your old age as my guest in Jerusalem.”

Genesis 47:28

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt for seventeen years; the span of his life came to a hundred and forty-seven years.