Genesis 20:2
Genesis chapter 20 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Context
v.1And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
v.2This passage
v.3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 26:7
and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
- Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
- Proverbs 24:16
For a righteous man falleth seven times, and riseth up again; But the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
- Genesis 26:1
And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.
- 2 Chronicles 32:31
Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
- Ecclesiastes 7:20
Surely there is not a righteous man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.