Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 47:9
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Genesis47:9
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 dayes of the years of the life of my fathers , in the days of their pilgrimage.
(i. e.) Of my unstable or nasettled life, in which I have been flitting from place to place. See Gen. 17. 8. Psal. 119. 19. Heb. 11. 9, 13.
Though I seem old in comparison of thy people, yet I fall much short of my Progenitours, Isaac and Abraham and Terah.
Marginal references: Heb. 11. 9, 13.
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