Genesis 12:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Lord sent great troubles on Pharaoh's house because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 16:21 : 21 He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them,
  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • 1 Chr 21:22 : 22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place where this grain-floor is, so that I may put up an altar here to the Lord: let me have it for its full price; so that this disease may be stopped among the people.
  • Job 34:19 : 19 Who has no respect for rulers, and who gives no more attention to those who have wealth than to the poor, for they are all the work of his hands.
  • Ps 105:14-15 : 14 He would not let anyone do them wrong; he even kept back kings because of them, 15 Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

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  • Gen 12:18-20
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    18 Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.

    20 And Pharaoh gave orders to his men, and they sent him on his way, with his wife and all he had.

  • Gen 12:14-16
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    14 And so it was that when Abram came into Egypt, the men of Egypt, looking on the woman, saw that she was fair.

    15 And Pharaoh's great men, having seen her, said words in praise of her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house.

    16 And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

  • Gen 12:10-12
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    10 And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

    11 Now when he came near to Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife, Truly, you are a fair woman and beautiful to the eye;

    12 And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

    18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 16:1-6
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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.

    2 And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.

    3 So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.

    4 And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.

    5 And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.

    6 And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.

  • 15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

  • 2 And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

  • 24 And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.

  • 30 And Sarai had no child.

  • 5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.

  • 14 Now, truly, the Lord will send a great destruction on your people and your children and your wives and everything which is yours:

  • Gen 20:11-12
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    11 And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

    12 And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife: