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The Death and Burial of Sarah

Genesis 23:1

In 11 translations

BSB
Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
KJV
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
WEB
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
ASV
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
LSV
And the life of Sarah is one hundred and twenty-seven years—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;
DBY
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
DRC
And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.
GNV
When Sarah was an hundreth twentie and seuen yeere olde (so long liued she).
JPS
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
LXXE
And the life of Sarrha was an hundred and twenty-seven years.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּהְיוּ֙ חַיֵּ֣י שָׂרָ֔ה מֵאָ֥ה שָׁנָ֛ה וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְשֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֑ים שְׁנֵ֖י חַיֵּ֥י שָׂרָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Ἐγένετο δὲ ἡ ζωὴ Σάῤῥας, ἔτη ἑκατὸν εἰκοσιεπτά.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Genesis 17:17Abraham 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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