Genesis 47:9

47:9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All ¹  the years of my travels ²  are 130. All ³  the years of my life have been few and painful; ⁴  the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.” ⁵ 

Genesis 47:1

Joseph’s Wise Administration

47:1 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of

Canaan. They are now ⁶  in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 29:15

29:15 Then Laban said to Jacob, “Should you work ⁷  for me for nothing because you are my relative? ⁸  Tell me what your wages should be.”

Psalms 39:12

39:12 Hear my prayer, O Lord!

Listen to my cry for help!

Do not ignore my sobbing! ⁹ 

For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land;

I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were. ¹⁰ 

Hebrews 11:13-16

11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ¹¹  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ¹²  on the earth. 11:14 For those who speak in such a way make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 11:15 In fact, if they had been thinking of the land that they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 11:16 But as it is, ¹³  they aspire to a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

¹ tn Heb “the days of.”

² tn Heb “sojournings.” Jacob uses a term that depicts him as one who has lived an unsettled life, temporarily residing in many different places.

³ tn Heb “the days of.”

⁴ tn The Hebrew word רַע (ra’) can sometimes mean “evil,” but that would give the wrong connotation here, where it refers to pain, difficulty, and sorrow. Jacob is thinking back through all the troubles he had to endure to get to this point.

⁵ tn Heb “and they have not reached the days of the years of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

⁶ tn Heb “Look they [are] in the land of Goshen.” Joseph draws attention to the fact of their presence in Goshen.

⁷ tn The verb is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; the nuance in the question is deliberative.

⁸ tn Heb “my brother.” The term “brother” is used in a loose sense; actually Jacob was Laban’s nephew.

⁹ tn Heb “do not be deaf to my tears.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “For a resident alien [am] I with you, a sojourner like all my fathers.”

¹¹ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

¹² tn Or “sojourners.”

¹³ tn Grk “now.”