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Genesis 23:1
Genesis 23:1 is verse 1 of Genesis chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
King James Version
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
World English Bible
Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.
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Genesis 23:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
2 She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
3 Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
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וַיִּהְיוּ֙and they wereחַיֵּ֣י[the] life ofשָׂרָ֔הSarahמֵאָ֥הone hundredשָׁנָ֛הyear[s]וְעֶשְׂרִ֥יםand twentyשָׁנָ֖הyear[s]וְשֶׁ֣בַעand sevenשָׁנִ֑יםyearsשְׁנֵ֖י[the] years ofחַיֵּ֥י[the] life ofשָׂרָֽהSarah
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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?”