Genesis 12:17

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But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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  • 1 Chr 16:21 : 21 He did not allow anyone to oppress them; for their sake, he rebuked kings,
  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For the LORD had completely closed every womb in Abimelech's household because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • 1 Chr 21:22 : 22 David said to Ornan, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the LORD on it. Sell it to me at the full price, so the plague on the people may be stopped."
  • Job 34:19 : 19 God shows no partiality to princes and does not favor the rich over the poor, for they are all the work of His hands.
  • Ps 105:14-15 : 14 He allowed no one to oppress them; He rebuked kings on their account. 15 'Do not touch My anointed ones, and do not harm My prophets.'
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

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  • Gen 12:18-20
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    18So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me she was your wife?"

    19"Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go."

    20Then Pharaoh gave orders to his men to send him away with his wife and everything he had.

  • Gen 12:14-16
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    14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

    15Pharaoh's officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's palace.

    16He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

  • Gen 12:10-12
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    10Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

    11As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.

    12When the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife.' Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    17Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, so they could bear children again.

    18For the LORD had completely closed every womb in Abimelech's household because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 16:1-6
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    1Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian maidservant whose name was Hagar.

    2So Sarai said to Abram, "Look, the LORD has prevented me from having children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family through her." And Abram listened to Sarai's voice.

    3After Abram had lived in the land of Canaan for ten years, Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maidservant, and gave her to Abram as a wife.

    4He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When Hagar saw that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

    5Then Sarai said to Abram, "The wrong done to me is your fault. I gave my maidservant into your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, I am despised in her eyes. May the LORD judge between you and me."

    6Abram said to Sarai, "Your maidservant is in your hands; do with her whatever you think is best." Then Sarai mistreated Hagar, and she fled from her presence.

  • Gen 17:15
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    15Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

  • Gen 20:2
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    2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister,' and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.

  • Exod 8:24
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    24Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the wilderness, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me."

  • Gen 11:30
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    30Now Sarai was childless because she was not able to conceive.

  • Gen 12:5
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    5Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all their possessions that they had acquired, and the people they had gained in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan. When they arrived in Canaan,

  • 2 Chr 21:14
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    14So now the Lord is about to strike your people, your sons, your wives, and all your possessions with a devastating plague.

  • Gen 20:11-12
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    11Abraham replied, 'I thought, Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'

    12Besides, she really is my sister—the daughter of my father though not of my mother—and she became my wife.