Genesis 23:1

Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.

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KJV

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

ASV

And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

YLT

And the life of Sarah is a hundred and twenty and seven years--years of the life of Sarah;

DBT

And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.

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And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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- The Death of Sarah 2. ארבע קרית qı̂ryat-'arba‛, Qirjath-arba, city of Arba. ארבע 'arba‛, Arba, four. 8. עפרון ‛eprôn, Ephron, of the dust, or resembling a calf. צחר tshochar, Tsochar, whiteness. 9. מכפלה makpêlâh, Makpelah, doubled. The death and burial of Sarah are here recorded. This occasions the purchase of the field of Makpelah, in the cave of which is her sepulchre. Gen 23:1-2 Sarah is the only woman whose age is recorded in Scripture.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old It is remarkable that Moses, who relates the death of Sarah in a single word, uses so many in describing her burial: but we shall soon see that the latter record is not superfluous.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old, &c.--Sarah is the only woman in Scripture whose age, death, and burial are mentioned, probably to do honor to the venerable mother of the Hebrew people.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Genesis 25:1
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

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PersonPatriarchsSarahAbraham's wife — barren, then bearing Isaac by promise “past age” through faith; Paul's allegory of the covenant of promise (Gal 4…

About this book

The Burial of Sarah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
leads to
- Genesis 21:6
  Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
- Genesis 18:12
  So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- Genesis 17:3
  Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
- John 8:56
  Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”
- Romans 4:19–20
  Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.

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