Genesis 20:12 - Modern English Version

¹² Still, indeed, she is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. She became my wife.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But truly, she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father but not of my mother; and she became my wife.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

Common English Bible

¹² She is, truthfully, my sister—my father’s daughter but not my mother’s daughter—and she’s now my wife.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Yet, in another way, she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her as a wife.

Genesis 20:12 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 11:29

Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milkah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milkah and the father of Iskah.

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister so that I may be treated well for your sake. Then my life will be spared because of you.”

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

Genesis 20:13

When God caused me to travel from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you must show me: Every place where we go, say concerning me, He is my brother.’ ”

Genesis 20:2

Then Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for her and took Sarah.

Genesis 26:7

The men of the place asked him about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful in appearance.”

2 Samuel 13:13

As for me, where could I escape my disgrace? And you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Abstain from all appearances of evil.