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Genesis 12:18

And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done unto me? why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Updated King James Version

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 plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

19Why said you, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that you have done? And the woman said, The serpent misled me, and I did eat.

Genesis 20:9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What have you done unto us? and what have I offended you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? you have done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

Genesis 26:10And Abimelech said, What is this you have done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with your wife, and you should have brought guiltiness upon us.

Genesis 31:26And Laban said to Jacob, What have you done, that you have stolen away unexpectedly to me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

Exodus 32:21And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto you, that you have brought so great a sin upon them?

Judges 2:2And all of you shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; all of you shall throw down their altars: but all of you have not obeyed my voice: why have all of you done this?

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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