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