Genesis 12:20

Pharaoh ordered his guards to expel him and his wife from the country, along with everyone with them and all their possessions.

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In The King James Version

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

In Context

19Why did you say, ‘She's my sister,’ and let me take her to become one of my wives? So here's your wife! Take her and leave!”

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Cross References

Exodus 18:27Then Moses sent Jethro on his way, and he went back to his own country.

Psalms 105:14He didn't let anyone treat them badly; warning kings to leave them alone:

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 →

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