Genesis 23:1
Verse 1 of 20. The 23rd of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.
1And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
2And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
Genesis 23:1 in the World English Bible
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.Read Genesis 23:1 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Genesis 23:1
Sarah's age, v. 1. Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, ch. xviii. 12. Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for reckoning themselves old. 2. Her death, v. 2. The longest liver must die at last. Abraham and Sarah had lived comfortably together many years; but death parts those whom nothing else could part. The special friends and favourites of Heaven are not exempted from the stroke of death.
Read Matthew Henry on Genesis 23:1–2: The Death of Sarah. (b. c. 1857.)
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