Genesis 47:8
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you?
American King James Version (AKJV)
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old are you?
American Standard Version (ASV)
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And Pharaoh said to him, How old are you?
Webster's Revision
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How old art thou?
World English Bible
Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?"
English Revised Version (ERV)
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How many are the days of the years of thy life?
Definitions for Genesis 47:8
Wesley's Genesis 47:8 Bible Commentary
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.