Genesis 47:9

Jacob Settles In Goshen

⁸ Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?” ⁹ So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.” ¹⁰ And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from his presence.

My Father

On Earth

Jacob

Pharaoh

Genesis 35:28

Now the days of Isaac were one 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.

Job 14:1

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

Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Psalm 39:12

“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,
A sojourner like all my fathers.

Psalm 119:19

I am a stranger in 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 what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

Genesis 5:27

So all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

Genesis 11:11

and Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 11:24-25

Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah;

Genesis 25:7-8

These are all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years.

Genesis 47:28

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

Genesis 50:26

So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed 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 sojourned.

Exodus 7:7

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

Deuteronomy 34:7

Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

Joshua 24:29

It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

2 Samuel 19:32-35

Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years old; and he had sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

Job 8:8-9

“Please inquire of past generations,
And consider 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 what my span of life is;
For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

Psalm 90:3-12

You turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”

2 Corinthians 5:6

Therefore, being always of good courage, 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 an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

Hebrews 13:14

For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.