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Genesis 12:18

And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not show me that she is thy wife?

Targum Onkelos

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

17And the Lord brought upon Pharaoh great plagues, and upon the men of his house, for the affair of Sara the wife of Abram.

19Why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I would have taken her to me to wife? And now, behold thy wife: take, and go.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:13And the Lord God said to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent led me astray, and I did eat.

Genesis 20:9And Abimelek called Abraham, and said to him, What hast thou done to us, and in what have I sinned against thee, that thou shouldst have brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? Works which are not worthy to be done hast thou done with me.

Genesis 26:10And Abimelek said, What is this that thou hast done to us? It might have been that some one of the people had lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought upon us the guilt.

Genesis 31:26And Laban said to Jacob; What hast thou done, that thou hast hidden from me, and taken away my daughters, as captives of the sword?

Exodus 32:21And Mosheh said to Aharon, What did this people to thee, that thou hast brought upon them so great a sin?

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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