Genesis 12:15
And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.
Cross References
Genesis 20:2And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Oerara sent, and took her.
Genesis 40:2And Pharao being angry with them (now the one was chief butler, the other chief baker)
Exodus 2:5And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges, she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought,
1 Kings 3:1And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
Esther 2:2And the king's servants and his officers said: Let young women be sought for the king, virgins and beautiful,
Proverbs 6:29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:15-20
Abram's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1920.) 14 And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15 The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. 16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. 17 And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's… Read the whole commentary →