Genesis 12:13
So tell them, ‘I am Abram's sister,’ and then they will let me live and they will be kind to me.”
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In The King James Version
In Context
14When they left Canaan and went into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai really was beautiful.
Cross References
Genesis 20:2While Abraham was in Gerar he said to the people there, “Sarah is my sister.” Sarah was his sister first, but then she became his wife. People used to do that long ago in that country. The king of Gerar was called Abimelech. He sent some of his people to Sarah to bring her to him to be his wife.
Genesis 20:12She really is my sister. She is my father's daughter, but not my mother's, and I married her.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:11-14
Abram's Removal into Egypt. ( b. c. 1920.) 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. 11 And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon: 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive. 13 Say, I pray thee,… Read the whole commentary →