Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “My pilgrimage
International Standard Version
"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."
A Conservative Version
And Jacob said to 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 to the days of the years of the life of my father
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Julia Smith Translation
And Jacob will say to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojourning, thirty and a hundred years: little and evil were the days of the years of my life, and they reached not the days of the years of the life of my fathers in their sojournings.
King James 2000
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning [are] one hundred and thirty years. Few and hard have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the lives of my ancestors in the days of their sojourning."
Modern King James verseion
And Jacob said to 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 I have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."
NET Bible
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."
New Heart English Bible
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."
The Emphasized Bible
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.
Webster
And Jacob said to 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, nor have they attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
World English Bible
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."
Youngs Literal Translation
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.'
Themes
Benedictions » Instances of » By jacob » Upon pharaoh
Egypt » History of israel in » Jacob, &c presented to pharaoh
jacob » Pharaoh receives him, and is blessed by jacob
Life » Lessons of » Pilgrimage, a
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
Life » Brief » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
natural Life » Is compared to » A pilgrimage
Pilgrims and strangers » Exemplified » jacob
Rulers' » Righteous » Instances of » Pharaoh, in his treatment of jacob and his family
Time » Brevity of » Life brief, figurative allusions to the brevity of
Interlinear
Shaneh (in pl. only),
שׁנה שׁנה
Shaneh (in pl. only),
שׁנה שׁנה
Shaneh (in pl. only),
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811
Usage: 811
me'ah
Shaneh (in pl. only),
M@`at
Ra`
Yowm
Nasag
Yowm
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 47:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Settles In Goshen
8
The king asked him: How old are you?
9 So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The
Cross References
Genesis 35:28
Isaac was one hundred and eighty years old.
1 Chronicles 29:15
You know, O Jehovah that we pass through life like exiles and strangers, as our ancestors did. Our days are like a passing shadow, and we cannot escape death.
Job 14:1
Man born of woman, lives a short life that is full of trouble.
Psalm 39:5
Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.
Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Jehovah. Open your ear (listen) to my cry for help. Do not be deaf to my tears, for I am a foreign resident with you, a stranger 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
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Genesis 5:27
Altogether, Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and then he died.
Genesis 11:11
After he became the father of Arpachshad, Shem lived five hundred years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:24-25
Nahor lived twenty-nine years; he became the father of Terah.
Genesis 25:7-8
Abraham lived one hundred and seventy-five years.
Genesis 47:28
Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, until he was a hundred and forty-seven years old.
Genesis 50:26
Joseph died in Egypt at the age of one hundred and ten. His body was embalmed and put in a coffin.
Exodus 6:4
I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as foreigners.
Exodus 7:7
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron was eighty-three when they talked to Pharaoh.
Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.
Joshua 24:29
After that, Jehovah's servant Joshua son of Nun died at the age of a hundred and ten.
2 Samuel 19:32-35
Barzillai was a very old man. He was eighty years old. He was very rich. He supplied the king with food while he was staying at Mahanaim.
Job 8:8-9
Ask the former generations and find out what their fathers learned.
Job 42:16-17
After this Job lived a hundred and forty years. He saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
Psalm 89:47-48
Remember how short my life span is! Have you created the sons of men for no reason?
Psalm 90:3-12
You turn men back into dust and say: Return, O sons of men!
2 Corinthians 5:6
We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.
Hebrews 11:9-16
By faith he became an alien in the Promised Land. It was not his land. He lived in tents with Isaac and Jacob. They were heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 13:14
We do not have a city that continues. We seek after the city that is to come.
1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I request that you as aliens and strangers abstain from fleshly lust (desires), which causes conflict in you.