Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Genesis 47:28 in English Standard Version "And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were 147 years." Ge 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”