Genesis 12:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.”
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“When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and princes of Pharaoh see her, and praise her unto Pharaoh, and the woman is taken <FI>to<Fi> Pharaoh's house;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 12:15 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 20:2Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
- Genesis 26:7But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
- Genesis 40:2Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
- Genesis 41:1After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,
- Exodus 2:5Soon the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe in the Nile, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. And when she saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to retrieve it.
- Exodus 2:15When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.
- 1 Kings 3:1Later, Solomon formed an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. Solomon brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his palace and the house of the LORD, as well as the wall around Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 18:21Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
- Esther 2:2Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,
- Psalms 105:4Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
- Proverbs 6:29So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
- Proverbs 29:12If a ruler listens to lies, all his officials will be wicked.
- Jeremiah 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officials, his leaders, and all his people;
- Jeremiah 46:17There they will cry out: ‘Pharaoh king of Egypt was all noise; he has let the appointed time pass him by.’
- Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
- Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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