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JPSAnd the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.
ASVAnd the life of Sarah was a hundred and seven and twenty years: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
DRAAnd Sara lived a hundred and twenty-seven years.
YLTAnd the life of Sarah is a hundred and twenty and seven years — years of the life of Sarah;
DrbyAnd the life of Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years: [these were] the years of the life of Sarah.
RVAnd the life of Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
WbstrAnd Sarah was a hundred and twenty-seven years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
KJB-1769And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
KJB-1611¶ And Sarah was an hundred and seuen and twenty yeeres olde: these were the yeeres of the life of Sarah. (¶ And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years olde:these were the years of the life of Sarah.)
BshpsSara was an hudreth and seuen and twentie yere olde (so long liued she.) (Sara was an hudreth and seven and twenty year old (so long lived she.))
GnvaWhen Sarah was an hundreth twentie and seuen yeere olde (so long liued she). (When Sarah was an hundreth twenty and seven year old (so long lived she). )
CvdlSara was an hundreth and seue and twentye yeare olde: so longe lyued she, (Sara was an hundreth and seven and twenty year olde: so long lyued she,)
WyclForsothe Sare lyuede an hundrid and seuene and twenti yeer, (Forsothe Sare lyuede an hundred and seven and twenty year,)
LuthSara war hundertsiebenundzwanzig Jahre alt (Sara what/which hundertsiebenundzwanzig years alt)
ClVgVixit autem Sara centum viginti septem annis.[fn] (Vixit however Sara hundred twenty seven annis. )
23.1Vixit autem Sara, etc. Et mortua est in civitate Arbee, etc. HIER. in Quæst. Hebr. Quæ est in valle: hoc in authenticis libris non habetur, etc., usque ad sicut in libro Josue aperte demonstratur.
23.1Vixit however Sara, etc. And mortua it_is in civitate Arbee, etc. HIER. in Quæst. Hebr. Quæ it_is in valle: this in authenticis libris not/no habetur, etc., until to like in libro Yosue aperte demonstratur.
23:1-20 When Sarah . . . died, Abraham acquired a parcel of land for a burial place. This transaction was the first sign that a permanent transition had taken place, as people were normally buried in their ancestral homeland (cp. 49:29–50:13). In burying Sarah, Abraham detached from his just-mentioned ancestral home (where his relatives still lived, 22:20-24); his future would be in Canaan, where his descendants would realize the promise.
Consider whether it is better in your language to combine the last part of verse 1 with the beginning of verse 2 and say, “That is how old she was when she died in Kiriath Arba …” Alternate translation: “Yes, that is how long she lived” or “That is how old she lived to be”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
