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Genesis 23:1

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

KJV

Vixit autem Sara centum viginti septem annis.

Vulgate

Ἐγένετο δὲ ἡ ζωὴ Σάρρας ἔτη ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι ἑπτά.

LXX

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

ASV

וַ/יִּהְיוּ֙ חַיֵּ֣י שָׂרָ֔ה מֵאָ֥ה שָׁנָ֛ה וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְ/שֶׁ֣בַע שָׁנִ֑ים שְׁנֵ֖י חַיֵּ֥י שָׂרָֽה

Hebrew

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People Sarah

In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

חַי
chy
verb · 502×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
מֵא֖וֹת
m'vt
adjective · 581×
עֶשְׂרִ֥ים
'shrym
adjective · 313×
שִׁבְעַ֥ת
shb't
adjective · 393×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×
שָׂרָ֖ה
shrh
proper_noun · 38×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.

Cross-references

  • Gen 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.
  • Gen 25:1 — Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah.