Genesis 23:1 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

XXIII.
DEATH AND BURIAL OF SARAH.

(1) Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old. — Sarah is the only woman whose age at her death is mentioned in the Bible, an honour doubtless given her as the ancestress of the Hebrew race (Isaiah 51:2). As she was ninety at Isaac’s birth, he would now be thirty-seven years of age.

Genesis 23:1

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