Genesis 20:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Oerara sent, and took her.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah [into his harem].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

² Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She’s my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar took her into his household.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he said about his wife Sarah: "She is my sister." Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.

Genesis 20:2 Cross References

Genesis 12:15

5 And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

Genesis 20:12

2 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

Genesis 21:22

2 At the same time Abimelech, and Phicol the general of his army said to Abraham: God is with thee in all that thou dost.

Genesis 26:1

And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara.

Genesis 26:16

6 Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

Genesis 26:7

And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister; for he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would like him because of her beauty.

2 Chronicles 19:2

Let the fear of the Lord be with you, and do all things with diligence: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, a nor respect of persons, nor desire of gifts.

2 Chronicles 20:37

Joram was two and thirty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 32:31

And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.

Proverbs 24:16

3 These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to persons in judgment.

Proverbs 29:25

Every word of God is fire tried: he is a buckler to them that hope in him.

Proverbs 6:29

My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,

Ecclesiastes 7:20

7 Lo this have I found, said Ecclesiastes, weighing one thing after another, that I might find out the account,

Ephesians 4:25

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

Colossians 3:9

8 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as it behoveth in the Lord.