And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”
And after he became the father of Arphaxad, Shem lived 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Isaac lived a hundred and eighty years.
Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.
Pharaoh asked him, “How old are you?”
Altogether, Methuselah lived a total of 969 years, and then he died.
So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.
I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.
“Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
Look away from me, that I may enjoy life again before I depart and am no more.”
You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord.
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.
For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten.
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul.