Genesis 12:14

World English Bible (2000)

It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
  • Gen 39:7 : 7 It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

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  • Gen 12:10-13
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    10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

    11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

    12 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

    13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

  • Gen 12:15-20
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    15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

    16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

    17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

    20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.

  • Gen 24:16
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    16 The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

  • Gen 26:7
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    7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

  • Gen 12:5-6
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    5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

    6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

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

  • Gen 13:1-2
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    1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

    2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

  • Gen 20:12-13
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    12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

    13 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

  • Gen 16:1-4
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    1 Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

    2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

    3 Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife.

    4 He went in to Hagar, and she conceived. When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

  • Gen 16:6
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    6 But Abram said to Sarai, "Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes." Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

  • Gen 15:12
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    12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.