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Genesis 18:12

And ContentiousWoman is laughing639 in her inner-part, to say, `The back-ones of my wearing out,640 she has become to-myself a luxurious-one, and myself has grown old.`641

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wearing out. A hint to the deeper enigma. The verb balah (#1086) is mainly used in reference to clothes (Deut. 8:4), sandals (Josh 9:13) etc. It is defined by the Psalmist,

“These ones are perishing, and yourself is standing-firm, and the whole of themselves like a garment-of-treachery are wearing-out [balah], like the Clothing, you are causing them to pass-through, and they are passing-through.” Psalm 102:26 literal