Genesis 47:9
Genesis · Old Testament · Chapter 47
“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.”Genesis 47:9
What Does Genesis 47:9 Mean?
Genesis 47:9 is found in the book of Genesis, chapter 47, verse 9 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Genesis 47:9 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 14:1“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.”Psalms 39:12“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.”Psalms 90:10“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”Psalms 119:19“I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.”Hebrews 11:13“These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.”Genesis 35:28“And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.”Job 8:9“(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)”Psalms 39:5“Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.”Psalms 119:54“Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.”Genesis 50:26“So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.”Exodus 6:4“And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.”Exodus 7:7“And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.”Deuteronomy 34:7“And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.”Joshua 24:29“And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.”James 4:14“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.”1 Peter 2:11“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”Genesis 11:11“And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.”Genesis 11:24“And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:”Genesis 25:7“And these are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.”Genesis 47:28“And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.”
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