The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.(Genesis 47:6)

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.(Genesis 47:7)

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?(Genesis 47:8)

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 days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.(Genesis 47:10)

And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.(Genesis 47:11)

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.(Genesis 47:12)

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Genesis 47:9 - Cross Reference

Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble. (Job 14:1)

And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. (Joshua 24:29)

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain? (Psalm 89:47)

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: (Hebrews 11:9)

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. (1 Chronicles 29:15)

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; (1 Peter 2:11)

And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh. (Exodus 7:7)

And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died. (Genesis 5:27)

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. (Psalm 119:54)

And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. (Genesis 11:11)

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. (Deuteronomy 34:7)

Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. (Psalm 90:3)

For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (Job 8:8)

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. (Hebrews 13:14)

And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. (Genesis 35:28)

So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. (Genesis 50:26)

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (2 Corinthians 5:6)

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. (Psalm 119:19)

And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. (Exodus 6:4)

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:14)

And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years. (Genesis 25:7)

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years. (Genesis 47:28)

Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psalm 39:5)

And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah: (Genesis 11:24)

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations. (Job 42:16)

Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man. (2 Samuel 19:32)

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were. (Psalm 39:12)