Skip to main content
bible.reafit.ai
Genesis 47:9Gen.47.9

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.

KJV

Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Jacob répondit à Pharaon: Les jours des années de mon pèlerinage sont de cent trente ans. Les jours des années de ma vie ont été peu nombreux et mauvais, et ils n'ont point atteint les jours des années de la vie de mes pères durant leur pèlerinage.

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

3

  • Philo Judaeus

    De Confusione Linguarum

    ου, ἃς παροικῶ, μικραὶ καὶ πονηραὶ γεγόνασιν· οὐκ ἐξίκοντο εἰς ἡμέρας τῶν πατέρων μου ἃς παρῴκησαν„ (Gen. 47,9). τῷ δ’ αὐτοδιδάκτῳ καὶ λόγιον ἐχρήσθη τοιόνδε· „μὴ καταβῇς εἰς„ τὸ πάθος „Αἴγυπτον, κατοίκησον δ’ ἐν τῇ γῇ ἣν ἄν σοι εἴπω„ (Gen. 26,2), τῇ ἀδείκτῳ καὶ ἀσωμάτῳ φρονήσει,…

  • Pacian of Barcelona

    Three Letters to Sympronianus

    my drink with tears (Psalm 102:10). Doesn't Jacob say: The years of my life have been few and hard (Genesis 47:9)? Doesn't the Apostle say to Timothy: Longing to see you, remembering your tears (Second Timothy 1:4)? And yet he was not speaking of a martyr. What now? Are miserabl…

  • Pacian of Barcelona

    Three Letters to Sympronianus

    ngled my drink with tears" (Psalm 102:10)? Doesn't Jacob say: "The years of my life have been hard" (Genesis 47:9)? Doesn't the Apostle say to Timothy: "Longing to see you, remembering your tears" (Second Timothy 1:4)? And yet, he wasn't talking about a martyr. So what now? Do mi…

Go deeper

For an immersive study of Genesis 47:9 — meditation, lectio divina, exegesis, theology — discover Open Study Bible.

Full study →