'Age' in the Bible
And [as for] you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
And {at eight days of age} you shall yourselves circumcise every male [belonging] to your generations [and] {the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner} who is not from your offspring.
Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old, {advanced in age}; {the way of women} had ceased to be for Sarah.
And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
And she said, "Who would announce to Abraham [that] Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son [to Abraham] in his old age."
Now Abraham [was] old, {advanced in age}, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.
And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he has given to him all that he has.
And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he [was] a son of his old age. And he made a robe with long sleeves for him.
And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger [brother], the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'
Now the eyes of Israel were dim on account of old age; he was not able to see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
" '{Before} old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I [am] Yahweh.
if your proper value is [for] a male from {twenty years of age} up to {sixty years of age}, then your proper value shall be fifty shekels [of] money according to the sanctuary's shekel.
And if from {five years of age} up to {twenty years of age}, then your proper value shall be twenty shekels [for] the male and ten shekels for the female.
And if from {a month of age} up to {five years of age}, then your proper value shall be five shekels [of] money [for] the male, and your proper value for the female [shall be] three shekels [of] money.
And if from {sixty years of age} and above: if a male, then your proper value shall be fifteen shekels; and for the female, ten shekels.
And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Yahweh, died {at the age of one hundred and ten years}.
And Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of Jehoash his father, in Ophrah [of] the Abiezrites.
He shall be for you a restorer of life and a sustainer in your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who [is] better for you than seven sons, has borne him."
Look, days [are] coming when I will cut off your {strength} and the {strength} of the house of your ancestor {so that no one in your house will live to old age}.
It happened at the time of Solomon's old age that his wives guided his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully with Yahweh his God as the heart of David his father [had been].
The wife of Jeroboam did so. She got up, went [to] Shiloh, and came [to] the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah was not able to see, for {his eyes were fixed} because of his old age.
The remainder of the acts of Asa, all of his achievements, all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah? But at the time of his old age, {he developed a foot disease}.
Now all of Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them, and all {who were fighting age and up} were called up, and they stood at the border.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, wealth, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.
Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength fails do not abandon me.
They will still prosper in old age. They will be fat and luxuriant,
Even to [your] old age I [am] he; even to [your] advanced age I myself will support [you]. I myself have made [you], and I myself will carry [you], and I myself will support [you], and I will save [you].
and the commander of the court officials said to Daniel, "I [am] afraid [of] my lord, the king, who has determined your food and your drink, for {why should} he see your face having a worse appearance than the young men who {are your age}? Then you will endanger my head with the king."
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Old men and old women shall again sit in the public squares of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand {because of great age}.
Then Herod, [when he] saw that he had been deceived by the wise men, became very angry, and he sent [soldiers] [and] executed all the children in Bethlehem and in all the region [around] it from [the age of] two years old and under, according to the time which he had determined precisely from the wise men.
And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him either in this age or in the coming one!
And the enemy who sowed them is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.
Thus just as the darnel is gathered and burned with fire, so it will be at the end of the age.
Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the evil from among the righteous
And [as] he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came up to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these [things] happen, and what [will be] the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"
teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the age."
{who will not} receive a hundred times as much now in this time--houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and fields, together with persecutions--and in the age to come, eternal life.
And behold, your relative Elizabeth--she also has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called barren.
And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation.
who will not receive many times more in this time and in the age to come, eternal life."
And Jesus said to them, "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,
but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and [to] the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage,
And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what [is] the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.
Where [is] the wise person? Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,
which none of the rulers of this age knew. For if they had known [it], they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone thinks [himself] to be wise among you in this age, let him become a fool, in order that he may become wise.
among whom the god of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, so that they would not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
who gave himself for our sins in order to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this age but also in the coming one,
Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,
For Demas deserted me, [because he] loved the present age, and went to Thessalonica. Crescens [went] to Galatia; Titus [went] to Dalmatia.
training us in order that, denying impiety and worldly desires, we may live self-controlled and righteously and godly in the present age,
and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the coming age,
By faith also, {with Sarah}, he received {the ability to procreate} even {past the normal age}, because he regarded the one who had promised [to be] faithful.
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