Genesis 12:17

And God afflicted Pharaoh with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.

In Context

16And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and mules, and camels.

18And Pharaoh having called Abram, said, What is this thou hast done to me, that thou didst not tell me that she was thy wife?

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Cross References

Genesis 20:18Because the Lord had fast closed from without every womb in the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

1 Chronicles 21:22And David said to Ornan, Give me thy place of the threshing floor, and I will build upon it an altar to the Lord: give it me for its worth in money, and the plague shall cease from among the people.

Psalms 105:14And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, 1 And tempted God in the dry land. 1

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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