13Say, 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.
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And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
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. …
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-13)Here is, I. A famine in the land of Canaan, a grievous famine . That fruitful land was turned into barrenness, not only to punish the iniquity of the Canaanites who dwelt therein, but to exercise the faith of Abram who sojourned therein; and a very sore trial it was; it tried what he would think, 1. Of God that brought him thither, whether he would not be ready to say with his murmuring seed that…
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