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 

Psalms 119:19

119:19 I am like a foreigner in this land. ¹¹ 

Do not hide your commands from me!

Hebrews 11:9-13

11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner ¹²  in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs ¹³  of the same promise. 11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with firm foundations, ¹⁴  whose architect and builder is God. 11:11 By faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and he was too old, ¹⁵  he received the ability to procreate, ¹⁶  because he regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy. 11:12 So in fact children ¹⁷  were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand ¹⁸  on the seashore. ¹⁹  11:13 These all died in faith without receiving the things promised, ²⁰  but they saw them in the distance and welcomed them and acknowledged that they were strangers and foreigners ²¹  on the earth.

Hebrews 11:1

People Commended for Their Faith

11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for, being convinced of what we do not see.

Hebrews 2:11

2:11 For indeed he who makes holy and those being made holy all have the same origin, ²²  and so ²³  he is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, ²⁴ 

[47:9]  ¹ tn Heb “the days of.”

[47:9]  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.

[47:9]  ³ tn Heb “the days of.”

[47:9]  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.

[47:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they have not reached the days of the years of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

[47:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “Look they [are] in the land of Goshen.” Joseph draws attention to the fact of their presence in Goshen.

[29:15]  ⁷ tn The verb is the perfect with the vav (ו) consecutive; the nuance in the question is deliberative.

[29:15]  ⁸ tn Heb “my brother.” The term “brother” is used in a loose sense; actually Jacob was Laban’s nephew.

[39:12]  ⁹ tn Heb “do not be deaf to my tears.”

[39:12]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “For a resident alien [am] I with you, a sojourner like all my fathers.”

[119:19]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I am a resident alien in the land.” Resident aliens were especially vulnerable and in need of help. They needed to know the social and legal customs of the land to avoid getting into trouble. The translation (note the addition of “like”) assumes the psalmist is speaking metaphorically, not literally.

[11:9]  ¹² tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”

[11:9]  ¹³ tn Or “heirs with him.”

[11:10]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “that has foundations.”

[11:11]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “past the time of maturity.”

[11:11]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “power to deposit seed.” Though it is not as likely, some construe this phrase to mean “power to conceive seed,” making the whole verse about Sarah: “by faith, even though Sarah herself was barren and too old, she received ability to conceive, because she regarded the one who had given the promise to be trustworthy.”

[11:12]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

[11:12]  ¹⁸ tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

[11:12]  ¹⁹ sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).

[11:13]  ²⁰ tn Grk “the promises,” referring to the things God promised, not to the pledges themselves.

[11:13]  ²¹ tn Or “sojourners.”

[2:11]  ²² tn Grk “are all from one.”

[2:11]  ²³ tn Grk “for which reason.”

[2:11]  ²⁴ tn Grk “brothers,” but the Greek word may be used for “brothers and sisters” as here (cf. BDAG 18 s.v. ἀδελφός 1, where considerable nonbiblical evidence for the plural ἀδελφοί [adelfoi] meaning “brothers and sisters” is cited). The context here also indicates both men and women are in view; note especially the collective τὰ παιδία (ta paidia) in v. 14.