Genesis 47:9

New American Bible - revised edition

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.”

Cross References

Psalm 39:12

You chastise man with rebukes for sin; like a moth you consume his treasures. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Genesis 35:28

The length of Isaac’s life was one hundred and eighty years;

Psalm 39:5

Lord, let me know my end, the number of my days, that I may learn how frail I am.

Job 14:1

Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble,

Joshua 24:29

After these events, Joshua, son of Nun, servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten,

Deuteronomy 34:7

Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated.

Exodus 7:7

Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh. The Staff Turned into a Serpent.

Exodus 6:4

I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they were residing as aliens.

Genesis 50:26

Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. He was embalmed and laid to rest in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and sojourners to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against the soul.

James 4:14

you have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. You are a puff of smoke that appears briefly and then disappears.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes become my songs wherever I make my home.

Psalm 119:19

I am a sojourner in the land; do not hide your commandments from me.

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.

Genesis 11:11

Shem lived five hundred years after he begot Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the one that is to come.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For before you we are strangers and travelers, like all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without a future.

Genesis 5:27

The whole lifetime of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years; then he died.

2 Corinthians 5:6

So we are always courageous, although we know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,

Genesis 47:8

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

Psalm 39:13

Listen to my prayer, Lord, hear my cry; do not be deaf to my weeping! For I am with you like a foreigner, a refugee, like my ancestors.