Genesis 12:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh's house [harem].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ When Pharaoh’s princes saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s household.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And the princes reported it to Pharaoh, and they praised her to him. And the woman was inducted into the house of Pharaoh.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

Genesis 12:15 Cross References

Genesis 12:14

When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Genesis 20:2

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

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.”

Genesis 40:2

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

Genesis 41:1

After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt; he took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

2 Kings 18:21

See, you are relying now on Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who rely on him.

Psalm 105:4

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually.

Exodus 2:15

When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh. He settled in the land of Midian and sat down by a well.

Exodus 2:5

The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her attendants walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid to bring it.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Proverbs 6:29

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

Jeremiah 25:19

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, and all his people;

Jeremiah 46:17

Give Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the name “Braggart who missed his chance.”

Ezekiel 32:2

Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.