Genesis 20:2 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

² Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” And King Abimelech of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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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.

Genesis 20:2 Cross References

Genesis 12:15

When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 20:12

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

Genesis 21:22

At that time Abimelech, with Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do;

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:16

And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”

Genesis 26:7

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “My wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.”

2 Chronicles 19:2

Jehu son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the Lord.

2 Chronicles 20:37

Then Eliezer son of Dodavahu of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, “Because you have joined with Ahaziah, the Lord will destroy what you have made.” And the ships were wrecked and were not able to go to Tarshish.

2 Chronicles 32:31

So also in the matter of the envoys of the officials of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.

Proverbs 24:16

for though they fall seven times, they will rise again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of others lays a snare, but one who trusts in the Lord is secure.

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 7:20

Surely there is no one on earth so righteous as to do good without ever sinning.

Ephesians 4:25

So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbors, for we are members of one another.

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices