Genesis 12:19

Why 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.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

In Context

18And 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?

20And Pharaoh instructed the men concerning him, and they, conducted him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

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Cross References

Genesis 20:14And Abimelek took sheep, and oxen, and servants, and handmaidens, and gave to Abraham, and returned to him Sarah his wife.

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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