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Genesis 47:8-12 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

8. and the king asked him, “How old are you?”

9. Jacob answered, “My life of wandering has lasted 130 years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.”

10. Jacob gave the king a farewell blessing and left.

11. Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers in Egypt, giving them property in the best of the land near the city of Rameses, as the king had commanded.

12. Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father's family, including the very youngest.

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