Genesis 23:1 Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Sarah lived to be a hundred and twenty-seven years old.

English Standard Version
Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

New American Standard Bible
Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Now Sarah lived 127 years; these were all the years of her life.

International Standard Version
Sarah lived for 127 years. That's how long Sarah's life was.

American Standard Version
And the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years. These were the years of the life of Sarah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And the life of Sarah is a hundred and twenty and seven years -- years of the life of Sarah;

Cross References

Genesis 22:24
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bore also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.

Genesis 23:2
And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

23:1-13 The longest life must shortly come to a close. Blessed be God that there is a world where sin, death, vanity, and vexation cannot enter. Blessed be his name, that even death cannot part believers from union with Christ. Those whom we most love, yea, even our own bodies, which we so care for, must soon become loathsome lumps of clays, and be buried out of sight. How loose then should we be to all earthly attachments and adornments! Let us seek rather that our souls be adorned with heavenly graces. Abraham rendered honour and respect to the princes of Heth, although of the ungodly Canaanites. The religion of the Bible enjoins to pay due respect to all in authority, without flattering their persons, or countenancing their crimes if they are unworthy characters. And the noble generosity of these Canaanites shames and condemns the closeness, selfishness, and ill-humour of many that call themselves Israelites. It was not in pride that Abraham refused the gift, because he scorned to be beholden to Ephron; but in justice and in prudence. Abraham was able to pay for the field, and therefore would not take advantage of Ephron's generosity. Honesty, as well as honour, forbids us to take advantage of our neighbour's liberality, and to impose, upon those who give freely.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 23

Ge 23:1, 2. Age and Death of Sarah.

1. 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.