Verse 13

Genesis 12:13

World English Bible, British Edition

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.”

Original Language Text

hebrew

אִמְרִי נָ֖א אֲחֹ֣תִ/י אָ֑תְּ לְמַ֨עַן֙ יִֽיטַב לִ֣/י בַ/עֲבוּרֵ֔/ךְ וְ/חָיְתָ֥ה נַפְשִׁ֖/י בִּ/גְלָלֵֽ/ךְ

English Translation

Say, please, you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and my life may be spared on account of you.

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Chapter 12 Context

1 Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go... Focus ↗

2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing... Focus ↗

3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the familie... Focus ↗

4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he... Focus ↗

5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and... Focus ↗

6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites... Focus ↗

7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar th... Focus ↗

8 He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel o... Focus ↗

9 Abram travelled, still going on towards the South. Focus ↗

10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the fam... Focus ↗

11 When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a bea... Focus ↗

12 It will happen that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me... Focus ↗

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

14 When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. Focus ↗

15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s h... Focus ↗

16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female ser... Focus ↗

17 The LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. Focus ↗

18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that s... Focus ↗

19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife,... Focus ↗

20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had. Focus ↗

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