Genesis 47:7-9

7 Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and presented * him to Pharaoh; and Jacob ¹blessed Pharaoh.

8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many years have you lived?"

9 So Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The ²years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained ³the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning."

Genesis 47:7-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 47

This chapter gives an account of the presentation of five of Joseph's brethren, and then of his father, to Pharaoh, and of what passed between them, Ge 47:1-10; of Joseph's settlement of them, according to the direction of Pharaoh, in the land of Rameses in Goshen, and of his provision for them there, Ge 47:11,12; of his getting into his hands, for Pharaoh, the money, cattle, and lands, of the Egyptians, excepting the lands belonging to the priests, for corn he had supplied them with, Ge 47:13-22; of his giving them seed to sow with, on condition of Pharaoh's having a fifth part of the produce, Ge 47:23-26, of the increase of Jacob's substance in Egypt, and that of his children; of the time of his living there, and his approaching death, when he called Joseph to him, and obliged him by an oath to bury him in the burying place of his fathers, Ge 47:27-31.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 47:10; 2 Samuel 14:22; 1 Kings 8:66
• 2. Hebrews 11:9, 13
• 3. Genesis 25:7; Genesis 35:28

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "set him before"
• [b] Lit "are the days of the years of your life"
• [c] Lit "days of the years"
• [d] Lit "thirty years"
• [e] Lit "evil"
• [f] Lit "days of the years"
• [g] Lit "reached"
• [h] Lit "days of the years"
• [i] Lit "of the life of my fathers"