Holy Scripture
Genesis 47:8
A church father on this verse
“Since he saw the old man was in extreme old age, he asked his age. "Jacob replied, 'The years of my sojourn on earth.' " See how all good people have the same attitude to this life as if living in a foreign land. I mean, hear what David also says later: "I am a sojourner upon earth, sojourning in a strange place"; whi…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8And Pharaoh said to Jacob, How many are the years of the days of thy life?
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6Behold, the land of Egypt is before thee; settle thy father and thy brethren in the best land.
7And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
— Genesis 47:8 —
9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.
10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and departed from him.