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Book I: From the Creation to the Death of Isaac · Chapter 17

Concerning the Death of Abraham

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A Little while after this Abraham died. He was a man of incomparable virtue, and honored by God in a manner agreeable to his piety towards him. The whole time of his life was one hundred seventy and five years, and he was buried in Hebron, with his wife Sarah, by their sons Isaac and Ismael.

Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, trans. William Whiston (1737). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #2848).