Genesis 23:1 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 23:1

Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

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.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּהְיוּ֙	vai.yih.Yu	and they were	H1961 →
חַיֵּ֣י	chai.Yei	[the] life of	H2416 →
שָׂרָ֔ה	sa.Rah	Sarah	H8283 →
מֵאָ֥ה	me.'Ah	one hundred	H3967 →
שָׁנָ֛ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים	ve.'es.Rim	and twenty	H6242 →
שָׁנָ֖ה	sha.Nah	year[s]	H8141 →
וְשֶׁ֣בַע	ve.She.va'	and seven	H7651 →
שָׁנִ֑ים	sha.Nim	years	H8141 →
שְׁנֵ֖י	she.Nei	[the] years of	H8141 →
חַיֵּ֥י	chai.Yei	[the] life of	H2416 →
שָׂרָֽה׃	sa.Rah	Sarah	H8283 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis