Genesis 12:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Why did you say, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and get away [from here]!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She’s my sister,’ so that I made her my wife? Now, here’s your wife. Take her and go!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ For what reason did you claim her to be your sister, so that I would take her to me as a wife? Now therefore, behold your mate, receive her and go."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ For what cause didst thou say, she was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now, therefore, there is thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Genesis 12:19 Cross References

Genesis 12:18

So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

Genesis 12:20

And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him, and they set him on the way with his wife and all that he had.

Genesis 20:14

Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.

Ecclesiastes 9:7

Go, eat your bread with enjoyment and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has long ago approved what you do.