Genesis 47:9 meaning and explanation
“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
Genesis 47:9, Berean Standard Bible
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Jacob, now an old man, stands before Pharaoh in Egypt, having come because the famine in Canaan left no pasture for his family's flocks. Asked his age, he answers with a word the BSB renders "travels," the same term used of his ancestors' wandering lives.
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