Genesis 47:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Jacob replied to Pharaoh, 'The days of my sojourning have been one hundred thirty years. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not compare to the years of the lives of my fathers during their sojourning.'

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrima are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrima.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Jacob{H3290} said{H559} unto Pharaoh,{H6547} The days{H3117} of the years{H8141} of my pilgrimage{H4033} are a hundred{H3967} and thirty{H7970} years:{H8141} few{H4592} and evil{H7451} have been the days{H3117} of the years{H8141} of my life,{H2416} and they have not attained{H5381} unto the days{H3117} of the years{H8141} of the life{H2416} of my fathers{H1} in the days{H3117} of their pilgrimage.{H4033}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Jacob{H3290} said{H559}{(H8799)} unto Pharaoh{H6547}, The days{H3117} of the years{H8141} of my pilgrimage{H4033} are an hundred{H3967} and thirty{H7970} years{H8141}: few{H4592} and evil{H7451} have the days{H3117} of the years{H8141} of my life{H2416} been, and have not attained{H5381}{(H8689)} unto the days{H3117} of the years{H8141} of the life{H2416} of my fathers{H1} in the days{H3117} of their pilgrimage{H4033}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    And Iacob sayde vnto Pharao: the dayes of my pilgremage are an hundred and.xxx. yeres. Few and euell haue the dayes of my lyfe bene and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of the lyfe of my fathers in the dayes of their pilgremages.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Iacob sayde: The tyme of my pylgremage is an hudreth and thirtie yeares: litle and euell is the tyme of my pilgremage, and attayneth not vnto the tyme of my fathers in their pylgremages.

  • 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.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Iacob sayd vnto Pharao, The dayes of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirtie yeres: Fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life ben, and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of ye lyfe of my fathers, in the dayes of theyr pilgrimage.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings `are' an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 35:28 : 28 And the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
  • Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; do not be silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with you, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
  • Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
  • Ps 119:54 : 54 Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
  • 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I urge you as strangers and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul;
  • Job 42:16-17 : 16 After this, Job lived one hundred and forty years and saw his children and grandchildren for four generations. 17 So Job died, old and full of days.
  • 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
  • Heb 11:9-9 : 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. 11 Through faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable. 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15 And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they had come, they might have had opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
  • Heb 13:14 : 14 For here we do not have a continuing city, but we seek the one to come.
  • Ps 89:47-48 : 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain? 48 What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.
  • Ps 90:3-9 : 3 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men. 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. 5 You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers. 7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. 11 Who knows the power of your anger? even according to your fear, so is your wrath. 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
  • Gen 5:27 : 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, and he died.
  • Gen 11:11 : 11 And Shem lived after he begot Arphaxad five hundred years and begot sons and daughters.
  • Gen 11:24-25 : 24 And Nahor lived twenty-nine years and begot Terah. 25 And Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years and begot sons and daughters.
  • Gen 25:7-8 : 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: a hundred and seventy-five years. 8 Then Abraham gave up the spirit and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
  • Gen 47:28 : 28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was one hundred forty-seven years.
  • Gen 50:26 : 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
  • Exod 6:4 : 4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, where they were strangers.
  • Exod 7:7 : 7 And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
  • Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural strength diminished.
  • Josh 24:29 : 29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old.
  • 2 Sam 19:32-35 : 32 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with sustenance while he remained at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man. 33 And the king said to Barzillai, Come over with me, and I will feed you with me in Jerusalem. 34 And Barzillai said to the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? 35 I am this day eighty years old; and can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and singing women? Why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Job 8:8-9 : 8 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 47:7-8
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    7 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

    8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you?

  • Gen 47:28-30
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    28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was one hundred forty-seven years.

    29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said to him, If now I have found favor in your sight, put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; do not bury me, I pray you, in Egypt:

    30 But I will lie with my fathers, and you shall carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burying place. And he said, I will do as you have said.

  • 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

  • Gen 50:3-5
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    3 And forty days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those who are embalmed, and the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

    4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

    5 My father made me swear, saying, Behold, I die: in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray you, and bury my father, and I will come again.

  • 22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father's house, and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

  • 15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he and our fathers,

  • 10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

  • Gen 37:1-2
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    1 And Jacob lived in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

    2 These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives: and Joseph brought their evil report to their father.

  • 46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and traveled throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • 28 And the days of Isaac were one hundred and eighty years.

  • Gen 46:30-31
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    30 And Israel said to Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.

    31 And Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brothers and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • 7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: a hundred and seventy-five years.

  • 5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you:

  • 3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

  • 26 So Joseph died, being one hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

  • 40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

  • Gen 46:4-5
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    4 I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon your eyes.

    5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

  • 25 And they went up out of Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father,

  • 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long unto this day,

  • 21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.

  • 5 And all the people that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was already in Egypt.

  • 15 how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely you would have sent me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night.

  • 17 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, Do this: load your animals and go, get to the land of Canaan.