Genesis 12:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 16:21 : 21 He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • 1 Chr 21:22 : 22 Then David said to Ornan, "Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."
  • Job 34:19 : 19 Who doesn't respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
  • Ps 105:14-15 : 14 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, 15 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 12:18-20
    3 verses
    84%

    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 12:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

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

    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.

  • Gen 12:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

  • Gen 20:17-18
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    75%

    17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

    18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 16:1-6
    6 verses
    74%

    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.

    5 Sarai said to Abram, "This wrong is your fault. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you."

    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 17:15
    74%

    15 God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

  • Gen 20:2
    72%

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

  • Exod 8:24
    72%

    24 Yahweh did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

  • Gen 11:30
    71%

    30 Sarai was barren. She had no child.

  • Gen 12:5
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 21:14
    70%

    14 behold, Yahweh will strike with a great plague your people, and your children, and your wives, and all your substance;

  • Gen 20:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

    12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.