Genesis 12:18

After that the boss sent a message to Abram, “Come here.” He growled at him, “You did the wrong thing to me. You lied to me about your wife.

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In The King James Version

And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

In Context

17Sarai was stopping in the camp of the big boss. After that God made the boss and his mob sick. A very big sickness came on them.

19Why did you say, 'She is a younger sister to me'? Because of your word I took her for a wife. She is your wife. Take her! You two go for good!”

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Cross References

Genesis 3:13God asked the woman, “What did you do?” She said to him, “The snake deceived me. I ate because of his word.”

Genesis 31:26Laban rebuked Jacob. “You deceived me. You took my two daughters, truly like two prisoners. Why did you do it like that?

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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