Genesis 20:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

To Sarah he said,“Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”

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  • Gen 20:5 : 5 Did Abraham not say to me,‘She is my sister’? And she herself said,‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
  • Gen 24:65 : 65 and asked Abraham’s servant,“Who is that man walking in the field toward us?”“That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.
  • Gen 26:11 : 11 So Abimelech commanded all the people,“Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
  • 1 Chr 21:3-6 : 3 Joab replied,“May the LORD make his army a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?” 4 But the king’s edict stood, despite Joab’s objections. So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel before returning to Jerusalem. 5 Joab reported to David the number of warriors. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 sword-wielding soldiers; Judah alone had 470,000 sword-wielding soldiers. 6 Now Joab did not number Levi and Benjamin, for the king’s edict disgusted him.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Do not reprove a mocker or he will hate you; reprove a wise person and he will love you. 9 Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid.
  • Prov 25:12 : 12 Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to the ear of the one who listens.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 The ship’s captain approached him and said,“What are you doing asleep? Get up! Cry out to your god! Perhaps your god might take notice of us so that we might not die!”
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

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  • Gen 20:13-15
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    13When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her,‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me,“He is my brother.”’”

    14So Abimelech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.

    15Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”

  • Gen 23:14-16
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    14Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him,

    15“Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 400 pieces of silver, but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

    16So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price and weighed out for him the price that Ephron had quoted in the hearing of the sons of Heth– 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time.

  • Gen 16:5-6
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    5Then Sarai said to Abram,“You have brought this wrong on me! I gave my servant into your embrace, but when she realized that she was pregnant, she despised me. May the LORD judge between you and me!”

    6Abram said to Sarai,“Since your servant is under your authority, do to her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai treated Hagar harshly, so she ran away from Sarai.

  • Gen 24:53
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    53Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.

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

  • Gen 24:36
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    36My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.

  • Gen 20:9-10
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    9Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him,“What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!”

    10Then Abimelech asked Abraham,“What prompted you to do this thing?”

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

  • Gen 20:5
    69%

    5Did Abraham not say to me,‘She is my sister’? And she herself said,‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”

  • Gen 26:9-10
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    69%

    9So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said,“She is really your wife! Why did you say,‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied,“Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”

    10Then Abimelech exclaimed,“What in the world have you done to us? One of the men nearly took your wife to bed, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

  • Gen 12:16
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    16and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

  • Gen 20:17
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    17Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.

  • Gen 12:19
    68%

    19Why did you say,‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

  • Gen 18:15
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    15Then Sarah lied, saying,“I did not laugh,” because she was afraid. But the LORD said,“No! You did laugh.”

  • Gen 21:25
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    25But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

  • Gen 18:9-10
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    9Then they asked him,“Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied,“There, in the tent.”

    10One of them said,“I will surely return to you when the season comes round again, and your wife Sarah will have a son!”(Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, not far behind him.

  • Gen 25:5
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    5Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

  • Gen 23:9
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    9if he will sell me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly for the full price, so that I may own it as a burial site.”

  • Gen 26:7
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    7When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied,“She is my sister.” He was afraid to say,“She is my wife,” for he thought to himself,“The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

  • Gen 24:66
    67%

    66The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

  • Gen 16:2
    67%

    2So Sarai said to Abram,“Since the LORD has prevented me from having children, please sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have a family by her.” Abram did what Sarai told him.