A moment in scripture
Genesis 23:2
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And Sarah died in Kirjath–arba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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The surrounding passage
- Genesis 23:1
And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.
- Genesis 23:3
And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
- Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.