Genesis 20:16

World English Bible (2000)

To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."

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  • Gen 20:5 : 5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."
  • Prov 27:5 : 5 Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
  • Gen 24:65 : 65 She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.
  • Gen 26:11 : 11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
  • 1 Chr 21:3-6 : 3 Joab said, "May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren't they all my lord's servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?" 4 Nevertheless the king's word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. 5 Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword. 6 But he didn't count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.
  • Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Don't reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise man, and he will love you. 9 Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
  • Prov 25:12 : 12 As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."
  • Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

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    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."'"

    14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

    15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

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

    15 "My lord, listen to me. What is a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver between me and you? Therefore bury your dead."

    16 Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.

  • Gen 16:5-6
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    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 24:53
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    53 The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

  • 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 24:36
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    36 Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

  • Gen 20:9-10
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    9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

    10 Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

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

  • Gen 20:5
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    5 Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

  • Gen 26:9-10
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    9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

    10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"

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

  • Gen 20:17
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    17 Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

  • Gen 12:19
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    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."

  • Gen 18:15
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    15 Then Sarah denied, saying, "I didn't laugh," for she was afraid. He said, "No, but you did laugh."

  • Gen 21:25
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    25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

  • Gen 18:9-10
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    9 They asked him, "Where is Sarah, your wife?" He said, "See, in the tent."

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    5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

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    9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."

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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."

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    66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

  • Gen 16:2
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    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.