'Years' in the Bible

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years;

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

Seth lived one hundred and five years, and became the father of Enosh.

Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

Enosh lived ninety years, and became the father of Kenan.

Then Enosh lived eight hundred and fifteen years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.

Then Kenan lived eight hundred and forty years after he became the father of Mahalalel, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.

Then Mahalalel lived eight hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Jared, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.

Then Jared lived eight hundred years after he became the father of Enoch, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.

Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years.

Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and became the father of Lamech.

Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

Lamech lived one hundred and eighty-two years, and became the father of a son.

Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

So all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and seventy-seven years, and he died.

Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Then the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

Now Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of water came upon the earth.

Noah lived three hundred and fifty years after the flood.

So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

These are the records of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old, and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood;

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

Arpachshad lived thirty-five years, and became the father of Shelah;

and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Shelah lived thirty years, and became the father of Eber;

and Shelah lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Eber, and he had other sons and daughters.

Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;

and Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he became the father of Peleg, and he had other sons and daughters.

Peleg lived thirty years, and became the father of Reu;

and Peleg lived two hundred and nine years after he became the father of Reu, and he had other sons and daughters.

Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;

and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.

Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor;

and Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and he had other sons and daughters.

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

and Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years after he became the father of Terah, and he had other sons and daughters.

Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

So Abram went forth as the Lord had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but the thirteenth year they rebelled.

God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.

After Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,“I am God Almighty;Walk before Me, and be blameless.

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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

These are the years of the life of Ishmael, one hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

Afterward his brother came forth with his hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so his name was called Jacob; and Isaac was sixty years old when she gave birth to them.

When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her.

Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years.”

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and indeed he loved Rachel more than Leah, and he served with Laban for another seven years.

These twenty years I have been with you; your ewes and your female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten the rams of your flocks.

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

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

These are the records of the generations of Jacob.Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.

Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had a dream, and behold, he was standing by the Nile.

The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years; the dreams are one and the same.

The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.

Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming in all the land of Egypt;

and after them seven years of famine will come, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will ravage the land.

Let Pharaoh take action to appoint overseers in charge of the land, and let him exact a fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance.

Then let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming, and store up the grain for food in the cities under Pharaoh’s authority, and let them guard it.

Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.

So he gathered all the food of these seven years which occurred in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities; he placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.

When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt came to an end,

and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said, then there was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

There I will also provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

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.”

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

Now Joseph stayed in Egypt, he and his father’s household, and Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.

So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath’s life was one hundred and thirty-three years.

Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

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

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