OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 1

Genesis 23:1

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Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.

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Genesis 23:1–4

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Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years. This was the length of Sarah’s life.

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Sarah died in Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron), in the land of Canaan. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

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Abraham rose up from before his dead and spoke to the children of Heth, saying,

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“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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