Jacob lived in Egypt seventeen years, and the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven. The seventeen years Jacob lives in Egypt mirrors the seventeen years Joseph lived in Jacob's household before being sold — Jacob spending his final years in the presence of the son he mourned as dead for twenty-two years. The application: the final seventeen years of Jacob's life are the years of restoration — the years with Joseph that the twenty-two years of separation had denied.

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