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Genesis 23:1-2

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The Death of Sarah

23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. 1  23:2 Then she 2  died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. 3 

1 tn Heb “And the years of Sarah were one hundred years and twenty years and seven years, the years of the life of Sarah.”

2 tn Heb “Sarah.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“she”) for stylistic reasons.

3 sn Mourn…weep. The description here is of standard mourning rites (see K. A. Kitchen, NBD3 149-50). They would have been carried out in the presence of the corpse, probably in Sarah’s tent. So Abraham came in to mourn; then he rose up to go and bury his dead (v. 3).



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