How Old Were Jacob and Esau

How Old Were Jacob and Esau when Jacob left for Padan-Aram? They had to be about seventy-six years old at that time. We know Jacob’s age when he arrived in Egypt. He was one hundred thirty years old when he met Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:9. And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred thirty years: few and bad have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.