Genesis 15:15

15:15 But as for you, ¹  you will go to your ancestors ²  in peace and be buried at a good old age. ³ 

Genesis 25:8

25:8 Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. ⁴  He joined his ancestors. ⁵ 

Genesis 25:1

The Death of Abraham

25:1 Abraham had taken ⁶  another ⁷  wife, named Keturah.

Genesis 23:1

The Death of Sarah

23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. ⁸ 

Job 5:26

5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age, ⁹ 

As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

Psalms 91:16

91:16 I will satisfy him with long life, ¹⁰ 

and will let him see my salvation.

¹ tn The vav with the pronoun before the verb calls special attention to the subject in contrast to the preceding subject.

² sn You will go to your ancestors. This is a euphemistic expression for death.

³ tn Heb “in a good old age.”

⁴ tn Heb “old and full.”

⁵ tn Heb “And he was gathered to his people.” In the ancient Israelite view he joined his deceased ancestors in Sheol, the land of the dead.

⁶ tn Or “took.”

⁷ tn Heb “And Abraham added and took.”

⁸ tn Heb “And the years of Sarah were one hundred years and twenty years and seven years, the years of the life of Sarah.”

⁹ tn The word translated “in a full age” has been given an array of meanings: “health; integrity”; “like a new blade of corn”; “in your strength [or vigor].” The numerical value of the letters in the word בְכֶלָח (bÿkhelakh, “in old age”) was 2, 20, 30, and 8, or 60. This led some of the commentators to say that at 60 one would enter the ripe old age (E. Dhorme, Job, 73).

¹⁰ tn Heb “length of days.”