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The synchronisation of ages between Jacob and Joseph is found through computation, based on the following facts. We know Jacob’s age when he went to Egypt because in Genesis 47:9 he tells Pharaoh that he was 130 years old.
When did the Biblical patriarchs such as Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and King David live? How old were they when they produced their first son? What was their age at death? The below information is partly based on our Old Testament Timeline and Kings of Ancient Israel list.
Joseph dies 54 years after the death of Jacob, and 286 years after God called Abraham to leave Haran and enter Canaan. Joseph dies at age 110. Joseph’s body is is kept by family until the exodus, and carried to Canaan where he was buried at the Shechem plot purchased by. Abraham and Jacob.
Jacob lived for seventeen years after arriving in Egypt and lived a total of one hundred forty-seven years (Genesis 47:28). Therefore, Jacob arrived in Egypt at the age of one hundred thirty, having buried his father Isaac ten years earlier.
Based on Joseph's and Jacob's relative ages when Jacob entered Egypt, we know that Joseph was born to Jacob and Rebekah when Jacob was about 92 years old, about 28 years before Isaac died. But Rachel had not immediately had children when they married.
26 gru 2018 · The Age of Jacob. Jacob was 108 years old when Joseph was sold into slavery. Jospeh was but a young man of 17 years of age (Genesis 37:2). Isaac, Jacob’s father was 168 years of age when Joseph was sold into Egyptian bondage.
