Genesis 47:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth & thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.

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  • Gen 35:28 : 28 And the daies of Izhak were an hundreth and fourescore yeeres.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Heare my prayer, O Lord, & hearken vnto my cry: keepe not silence at my teares, for I am a strager with thee, and a soiourner as all my fathers.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger vpon earth: hide not thy commandements from me.
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Thy statutes haue beene my songes in the house of my pilgrimage.
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearely beloued, I beseeche you, as strangers and pilgrims, absteine from fleshly lusts, which fight against the soule,
  • Job 42:16-17 : 16 And after this liued Iob an hundreth and fourtie yeres, and sawe his sonnes, and his sonnes sonnes, euen foure generations. 17 So Iob dyed, being old, and full of dayes.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore we are always bolde, though we knowe that whiles we are at home in the bodie, we are absent from the Lord.
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he abode in the land of promes, as in a strange countrey, as one that dwelt in tents with Isaac and Iacob heires with him of the same promes. 10 For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue seede, and was deliuered of a childe when she was past age, because she iudged him faithfull which had promised. 12 And therefore sprang there of one, euen of one which was dead, so many as the starres of the skie in multitude, and as the land of the sea shore which is innumerable. 13 All these died in faith, and receiued not the promises, but sawe them a farre off, and beleeued them, and receiued them thankefully, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things, declare plainely, that they seeke a countrey. 15 And if they had bene mindfull of that countrey, from whence they came out, they had leasure to haue returned. 16 But nowe they desire a better, that is an heauenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a citie.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here haue we no continuing citie: but we seeke one to come.
  • Ps 89:47-48 : 47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men? 48 What man liueth, and shall not see death? shall hee deliuer his soule from the hande of the graue? Selah.
  • Ps 90:3-9 : 3 Thou turnest man to destruction: againe thou sayest, Returne, ye sonnes of Adam. 4 For a thousande yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, & as a watch in the night. 5 Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse: 6 In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe and withereth. 7 For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought. 10 The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away. 11 Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy feare is thine anger. 12 Teach vs so to nomber our dayes, that we may apply our heartes vnto wisdome.
  • Gen 5:27 : 27 So al the dayes of Methushelah were nine hundreth sixtie and nine yeeres: and he died.
  • Gen 11:11 : 11 And Shem liued, after he begate Arpachshad, fiue hundreth yeeres, and begate sonnes and daughters.
  • Gen 11:24-25 : 24 And Nahor liued nine and twentie yeeres, and begate Terah. 25 So Nahor liued, after he begate Terah, an hundreth and nineteene yeeres, and begat sonnes and daughters.
  • Gen 25:7-8 : 7 And this is the age of Abrahams life, which he liued, an hundreth seuentie & fiue yeere. 8 Then Abraham yeelded the spirit, and died in a good age, an olde man, and of great yeeres, & was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 47:28 : 28 Moreouer, Iaakob liued in the lande of Egypt seuenteene yeeres, so that the whole age of Iaakob was an hundreth fourtie and seuen yeere.
  • Gen 50:26 : 26 So Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten yere olde: and they enbaumed him & put him in a chest in Egypt.
  • Exod 6:4 : 4 Furthermore as I made my couenant with them to giue them ye land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers:
  • Exod 7:7 : 7 (Nowe Moses was foure score yeere olde, and Aaron foure score and three, when they spake vnto Pharaoh)
  • Deut 34:7 : 7 Moses was nowe an hundreth and twentie yeere olde when hee died, his eye was not dimme, nor his naturall force abated.
  • Josh 24:29 : 29 And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lord died, being an hundreth and ten yeeres olde.
  • 2 Sam 19:32-35 : 32 Nowe Barzillai was a very aged man, euen fourescore yeere olde, and he had prouided the king of sustenance, while he lay at Mahanaim: for he was a man of very great substance. 33 And the king said vnto Barzillai, Come ouer with me, and I will feede thee with me in Ierusalem. 34 And Barzillai said vnto the king, Howe long haue I to liue, that I should goe vp with the king to Ierusalem? 35 I am this day fourescore yeere olde: and can I discerne betweene good or euill? Hath thy seruant any taste in that I eat or in that I drinke? Can I heare any more the voyce of singing men and women? Wherefore then should thy seruant be anymore a burthen vnto my lord the king?
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers. 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 47:7-8
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    86%

    7Ioseph also brought Iaakob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; Iaakob saluted Pharaoh.

    8Then Pharaoh sayde vnto Iaakob, Howe olde art thou?

  • Gen 47:28-30
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    28Moreouer, Iaakob liued in the lande of Egypt seuenteene yeeres, so that the whole age of Iaakob was an hundreth fourtie and seuen yeere.

    29Now when the time drewe neere that Israel must dye, he called his sonne Ioseph, and sayde vnto him, If I haue nowe founde grace in thy sight, put thine hand nowe vnder my thigh, and deale mercifully & truely with me: burie me not, I pray thee, in Egypt.

    30But when I shall sleepe with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury mee in their buryall; he answered, I will doe as thou hast sayde.

  • Gen 47:10
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    10And Iaakob tooke leaue of Pharaoh, & departed from the presence of Pharaoh.

  • Gen 50:3-5
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    3So fourtie dayes were accomplished (for so long did the dayes of them that were enbaumed last) and the Egyptians bewayled him seuentie dayes.

    4And when the dayes of his mourning were past, Ioseph spake to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I haue nowe found fauour in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of Pharaoh, and say,

    5My father made me sweare, saying, Loe, I die, bury me in my graue, which I haue made me in the land of Canaan: now therefore let me go, I pray thee, & bury my father, & I wil come againe.

  • Gen 50:22
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    22So Ioseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers house: and Ioseph liued an hundreth and tenne yeere.

  • Acts 7:15
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    15So Iacob went downe into Egypt, and he dyed, and our fathers,

  • Ps 90:10
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    10The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.

  • Gen 37:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1Iaakob nowe dwelt in the lande, wherein his father was a stranger, in the lande of Canaan.

    2These are the generations of Iaakob, when Ioseph was seuenteene yeere olde: he kept sheepe with his brethren, and the childe was with the sonnes of Bilhah, and with the sonnes of Zilpah, his fathers wiues; Ioseph brought vnto their father their euill saying.

  • Gen 41:46
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    46And Ioseph was thirtie yeere old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt: and Ioseph departing from the presence of Pharaoh, went throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 35:28
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    28And the daies of Izhak were an hundreth and fourescore yeeres.

  • Gen 46:30-31
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    30And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, Now let me die, since I haue seene thy face, and that thou art yet aliue.

    31Then Ioseph said to his brethren, & to his fathers house, I wil go vp and shew Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me,

  • Gen 25:7
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    7And this is the age of Abrahams life, which he liued, an hundreth seuentie & fiue yeere.

  • Gen 47:5
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    5Then spake Pharaoh to Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.

  • Gen 47:3
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    3Then Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy seruants are shepheards, both we and our fathers.

  • Gen 50:26
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    26So Ioseph died, when he was an hundreth and ten yere olde: and they enbaumed him & put him in a chest in Egypt.

  • Exod 12:40
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    40So the dwelling of the children of Israel, while they dwelled in Egypt, was foure hundreth and thirtie yeres.

  • Gen 46:4-5
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    4I wil go downe with thee into Egypt, and I will also bring thee vp againe, and Ioseph shal put his hand vpon thine eyes.

    5Then Iaakob rose vp from Beer-sheba: and the sonnes of Israel caried Iaakob their father, & their children, & their wiues in the charets, which Pharaoh had sent to cary him.

  • Gen 45:25
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    25Then they went vp from Egypt, and came vnto the land of Canaan vnto Iaakob their father,

  • Gen 48:15
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    15Also he blessed Ioseph and sayde, The God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Izhak did walke, the God, which hath fed me al my life long vnto this day, blesse thee.

  • Gen 29:21
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    21Then Iaakob sayde to Laban, Giue me my wife, that I may goe in to her: for my terme is ended.

  • Exod 1:5
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    5So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.

  • Num 20:15
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    15How our fathers went downe into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, where the Egyptians handled vs euill and our fathers.

  • Gen 31:42
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    42Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, & the labour of mine hads, & rebuked thee yester night.

  • Gen 45:17
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    17Then Pharaoh said vnto Ioseph, Say to thy brethren, This doe ye, lade your beastes & depart, go to the land of Canaan,