Genesis 47:9

The Passion Translation

Jacob answered, “My earthly journey has been one hundred and thirty years. My years have been few and hard, but it doesn’t compare to the length of the earthly journeys of my fathers.”

Cross References

Psalm 39:12

Lord, listen to all my tender cries. Read my every tear, like liquid words that plead for your help. I feel all alone at times, like a stranger to you, passing through this life just like all those before me.

Genesis 35:28

Isaac was one hundred and eighty when he breathed his last and died.

Psalm 39:5

What a brief time you’ve given me to live! Compared to you my lifetime is nothing at all! Nothing more than a puff of air—I’m gone so swiftly. So too are the grandest of men; they are nothing but a fleeting shadow!” Pause in his presence

Joshua 24:29

Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died at the age of one hundred and ten.

Genesis 50:26

Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten. He was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

1 Peter 2:11

My divinely loved friends, since you are resident aliens and foreigners in this world, I appeal to you to divorce yourselves from the evil desires that wage war within you.

James 4:14

But you don’t have a clue what tomorrow may bring. For your fleeting life is but a warm breath of air that is visible in the cold only for a moment and then vanishes!

Psalm 119:54

As I journey through life, I put all your statutes to music; they become the theme of my joyous songs.

Psalm 119:19

My life on earth is so brief, so tutor me in the ways of your wisdom.

Genesis 47:28

Jacob lived in Egypt for seventeen years and lived a total of one hundred and forty-seven years.

Genesis 11:11

And after Arphaxad was born, Shem lived another five hundred years and had other sons and daughters.

Hebrews 13:14

For we have no city here on earth to be our permanent home, but we seek the city that is destined to come.

Genesis 5:27

The life span of Methuselah was nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died.

2 Corinthians 5:6

That’s why we’re always full of courage. Even while we’re at home in the body, we’re homesick to be with the Master—

Genesis 47:8

Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How old are you?”

Psalm 39:13

Don’t let me die without restoring joy and gladness to my soul. May your frown over my failure become a smile over my success.