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1And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

Genesis 23:1

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 1-2)

We have here, 1. Sarah’s age, Gen. 23:1. Almost forty years before, she had called herself old, Gen. 18:12. Old people will die never the sooner, but may die the better, for reckoning themselves old. 2. Her death, Gen. 23:2. The longest liver must die at last. Abraham and Sarah had lived comfortably together many years; but death parts those whom nothing else could part. The special friends and fa...

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