'Age' in the Bible
As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in age; Sarah was past childbearing.
So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
Now Abraham was old, advanced in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in every way.
Now Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.
Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.
Isaac breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, an old man of ripe age; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
These are the records of the generations of Jacob.Joseph, when seventeen years of age, was pasturing the flock with his brothers while he was still a youth, along with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about them to their father.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a varicolored tunic.
We said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little child of his old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’
Now the eyes of Israel were so dim from age that he could not see. Then Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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- Age (470 instances)
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