08.05. Abraham to Joseph

To get the numbers from Abraham to Joseph we go into a more detailed part of the text and find the references to compile this list.

• Abraham was 100 years old at the birth of Isaac

  • Gen 17:1-27 records Abraham being 99 years old when he was given the promise of a child through Sarah his wife the following year.

  • Gen 21:5 records Abraham’s age as 100 years old when Isaac was born.

• Abraham lived to be 175 years old (Gen 25:7)

• Isaac was 60 years old when Jacob was born (Gen 25:26)

• Isaac was 180 years old when he died (Gen 35:28)

• Jacob was 147 years old when he died (Gen 47:28)

• Joseph’s numbers need to be calculated a bit differently.

  • Jacob was in Egypt 17 years

  • Jacob entered Egypt when there were 5 years left in the famine (Gen 45:6; Gen 45:11)

  • Joseph was 30 years old when he came before Pharaoh (Gen 41:46). At this point the 7 years of plenty were just beginning.

  • Joseph died at 110 years of age (Gen 50:26)

  • So, to get Jacob’s age at Joseph’s birth we need to start from the time that Jacob entered Egypt. He was 130 Years old when he came to Egypt (Gen 47:9). From that, we subtract the 2 years of famine that have already occurred, so that makes him 128 at the start of the famine. From there we subtract the 7 years of plenty, making him 121 at the time of the start of the 7 years of plenty which is when Joseph was 30 years old, making Jacob 91 years old when Joseph was born. Joseph’s sons were born prior to the years of famine. (Gen 41:50)