Genesis 12:13 - The Scriptures 1998

¹³ “Please say you are my sister, so that it shall be well with me for your sake, and my life be spared because of you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Say, I beg of you, that you are my sister, so that it may go well with me for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake, and that my soul may live because of thee.

Common English Bible

¹³ So tell them you are my sister so that they will treat me well for your sake, and I will survive because of you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ Therefore, I beg you to say that you are my sister, so that it may be well with me because of you, and so that my soul may live by your favor."

Genesis 12:13 Cross References

Genesis 11:29

And Aḇ

Genesis 12:14

And it came to be, when Aḇ

Genesis 20:2

And Aḇ

Genesis 20:5

“Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she, even she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and in the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

Genesis 26:7

And when the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me for Riḇ

Isaiah 57:11

“And of whom have you been afraid, or feared, that you have lied and not remembered Me, nor taken it to your heart? Have I not been silent, even from of old, and you have not feared Me?

Jeremiah 38:17

And Yirmeyahu said to Tsiḏ

Jeremiah 38:20

But Yirmeyahu said, “They shall not hand you over. Please, obey the voice of יהוה  which I speak to you, and let it be well with you, and your life be spared.

Ezekiel 18:4

“See, all beings are Mine, the being of the father as well as the being of the son is Mine. The being that is sinning shall die.

John 8:44

“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the favourable gift of Elohim is everlasting life in Messiah יהושע  our Master.

Colossians 3:6

Because of these the wrath of Elohim is coming upon the sons of disobedience,