Genesis 47:9

Jacob Settles In Goshen

⁸ And Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How old are you?” ⁹ Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.” ¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and departed from his presence.

My Father

On Earth

Jacob

Pharaoh

Genesis 35:28

Now the days of Isaac were a hundred and eighty years.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

Job 14:1

“Man, who is born of a woman,
Is short-lived and full of turmoil.

Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

Psalm 39:12

“Hear my prayer, O Lord, and listen to my cry;
Do not be silent at my tears;
For I am Your temporary guest,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger on the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.

Psalm 119:54

Your statutes are my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].

Genesis 5:27

So Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Genesis 11:11

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

Genesis 11:24-25

When Nahor had lived twenty-nine years, he became the father of Terah.

Genesis 25:7-8

The days of Abraham’s life were a hundred and seventy-five years.

Genesis 47:28

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was a hundred and forty-seven years.

Genesis 50:26

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

Exodus 6:4

I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as strangers (temporary residents, foreigners).

Exodus 7:7

Now Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Deuteronomy 34:7

Although Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eyesight was not dim, nor his natural strength abated.

Joshua 24:29

It happened after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, at the age of a hundred and ten years.

2 Samuel 19:32-35

Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great and wealthy man.

Job 8:8-9

“Inquire, please, of past generations,
And consider and apply yourself to the things searched out by their fathers.

Job 42:16-17

After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

Psalm 89:47-48

Remember how fleeting my lifetime is;
For what vanity, [for what emptiness, for what futility, for what wisp of smoke] You have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 90:3-12

You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

2 Corinthians 5:6

So then, being always filled with good courage and confident hope, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

Hebrews 11:9-16

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land, as in a strange land, living in tents [as nomads] with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

Hebrews 13:14

For here we have no lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges [those dishonorable desires] that wage war against the soul.