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19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her[a] to be my wife?[b] Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”[c] 20 Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram,[d] and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 12:19 tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.
  2. Genesis 12:19 tn Heb “to me for a wife.”
  3. Genesis 12:19 tn Heb “take and go.”
  4. Genesis 12:20 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.