Genesis 20:12
Yet in very deede she is my sister, for she is ye daughter of my father, though she be not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wyfe.
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 11:29 : 29 Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, was Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.
- Gen 12:13 : 13 Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion.
- 1 Thess 5:22 : 22 Abstayne from all appearaunce of euyll.
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- Gen 12:18-203 verses83%
18And Pharao callyng Abram, sayde: why hast thou done this vnto me?
19Why diddest thou not tel me, that she was thy wyfe? why saydest thou, she is my sister? and so I might haue taken her to be my wyfe? Nowe therfore beholde, there is thy wyfe, take her, and go thy way.
20And Pharao gaue his men commaundement concerning him: and they conuayed him foorth, and his wyfe, and all that he had.
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13And after God caused me to wander out of my fathers house, I sayde vnto her: this kyndnesse shalt thou shewe vnto me, in all places where we come, that thou say of me, he is my brother.
- Gen 20:2-54 verses83%
2And Abraham sayde of Sara his wyfe, she is my syster: And Abimelech kyng of Gerar sent, and fet Sara away.
3But God came to Abimelech by night in a dreame, and saide to hym: See, thou art but a dead man for the womans sake whiche thou hast taken away, for she is a mans wyfe.
4But Abimelech had not yet touched her: and he sayde, Lorde wylt thou slay ryghteous people?
5Saide not he vnto me, she is my sister? yea and she her selfe sayde, he is my brother: with a single heart, and innocent handes haue I done this.
- Gen 26:9-102 verses77%
9And Abimelech called Isahac, and said: beholde, she is of a suretie thy wife, and why saydest thou, she is my sister? To whom Isahac aunswered: because I thought that I might peraduenture haue dyed for her sake.
10Abimelech said: why hast thou done this vnto vs? one of the people myght lyghtly haue lyne by thy wyfe, and so shouldest thou haue brought sinne vpon vs.
- Gen 12:11-144 verses77%
11And when he was come neare to enter into Egypt, he sayde vnto Sarai his wife: beholde, I knowe that thou art a fayre woman to loke vpon:
12Therfore shall it come to passe, that when the Egyptians see thee, they shall say, she is his wyfe, and they wyll kyll me, but they wyll saue thee aliue:
13Say I pray thee, that thou art my sister, that I may fare well for thy sake, and that my soule may liue through thy occasion.
14And so when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians behelde the woman, for she was very fayre.
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11Abraha aunswered: For I thought thus surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake.
- Gen 24:36-383 verses74%
36And Sara my maisters wyfe bare hym a sonne when she was olde, and vnto him hath he geue all that he hath.
37And my maister made me sweare, saying: thou shalt not take a wyfe to my sonne amongest the daughters of the Chanaanites, in whose lande I dwell:
38But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne.
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7And the men of the place asked him of his wyfe. And he sayde, she is my sister: for he feared to say, she is my wyfe, lest the men of the place shoulde haue kylled hym, because of Rebecca, whiche was beautifull to the eye.
- Gen 24:3-42 verses73%
3And I wyll make thee sweare by the Lorde God of heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Chanaanites, amongest which I dwel:
4But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac.
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20And after these thynges, one tolde Abraham, saying: beholde Milcha, she hath also borne chyldren vnto thy brother Nachor,
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11The nakednesse of thy fathers wiues daughter begotten of thy father, which is thy sister: thou shalt not discouer her nakednesse.
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24She aunswered hym: I am the daughter of Bethuel the sonne of Milcha whiche she bare vnto Nachor.
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12And it is true that I am of thy next kinne, howbeit there is one nier then I.
- Gen 16:1-22 verses72%
1Sarai Abrams wyfe bare hym no chyldren: but she had an handemayde an Egyptian, Hagar by name.
2And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: beholde, nowe the Lorde hath restrayned me, that I can not beare, I pray thee go in to my mayde, it may be that I may be builded by her: and Abram obeyed the voyce of Sarai.
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29Abram & Nachor toke them wiues: the name of Abrams wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachors wyfe, was Milcha, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcha, & the father of Iischa.
- 2 Sam 13:11-122 verses71%
11And whe she had set them before him to eate, he toke her, and saide vnto her: Come, lye with me my sister.
12And she aunswered him: Nay my brother, do not force me, for there hath no such thing ben done in Israel: Do not thou this folly.
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2And her father sayde, I thought that thou haddest hated her, & therfore gaue I her to thy companion: Is not her younger sister fayrer then she? Take her I pray thee, in steade of the other.
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15And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sara shall her name be.
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21And he dwelt in the wyldernesse of Paran, and his mother got hym a wyfe out of the lande of Egypt.
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5And Sarai sayde vnto Abram: there is wrong done vnto me by thee: I haue geuen my mayde into thy bosome, whiche seyng that she hath conceaued, I am despised in her eyes, the Lorde be iudge betweene thee & me.
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8Neuerthelesse, if the woman wyl not folowe thee, then shalt thou be cleare from this my othe: onlye bring not my sonne thyther agayne.