Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
Seventeen
The whole age
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Bible References
Seventeen
Genesis 37:2
These, are the generations of Jacob - Joseph, when seventeen years old, was shepherding with his brethren among the flocks, and, he, being a youth, was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah wives of his father, - so then Joseph brought in the talk about them - something bad, unto their father.
The whole age
Genesis 47:8
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob: About how many, have been the days of the years of thy life?
Psalm 90:10
The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.
Psalm 119:84
How few are the days of thy servant! When wilt thou execute sentence on my persecutors?
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Genesis 35:28
And the days of Isaac came to be - n hundred and eighty years.