Genesis 20:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

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  • Gen 20:5 : 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
  • Gen 24:65 : 65 For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
  • Gen 26:11 : 11 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
  • 1 Chr 21:3-6 : 3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord the king, are they not all my lord's servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword. 6 But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
  • Prov 25:12 : 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

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    13And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

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    14And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,

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    36And Sarah my master's wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.

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