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Genesis 47:8
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6 aThe land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell bin the land of Goshen. And if you know any competent men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock.”  
7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob ablessed Pharaoh.  
8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”
9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, a“The days of the years of my pilgrimage are bone hundred and thirty years; cfew and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and dthey have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”  
10 So Jacob ablessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.  
11 And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of aRameses, bas Pharaoh had commanded.  
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Genesis 47:8

How old art thou? - A question usually put to old men, for it is natural to us to admire old age, and to reverence it. Jacob's countenance no doubt shewed him to be old, for be had been a man of labour and sorrow. In Egypt people were not so long - lived as in Canaan, and therefore Pharaoh looks upon Jacob with wonder.


 
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