Genesis 12:19
Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
Genesis 12:19 in other translations
| BSB | Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!” |
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| WEB | Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.” |
| ASV | why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. |
| YLT | Why hast thou said, She is my sister, and I take her to myself for a wife? and now, lo, thy wife, take and go.' |
| DARBY | Why didst thou say, She is my sister, so that I took her as my wife. And now, behold, there is thy wife: take her, and go away. |
| BBE | Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way. |
| Webster | Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me for a wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. |
What does Genesis 12:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Genesis 12:18-20
18-20. Here is a most humiliating rebuke, and Abram deserved it. Had not God interfered, he might have been tempted to stay in Egypt and forget the promise (Psa 105:13, 15). Often still does God rebuke His people and remind them through enemies that this world is not their rest.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 12:10-20
There is no state on earth free from trials, nor any character free from blemishes. There was famine in Canaan, the glory of all lands, and unbelief, with the evils it ever brings, in Abram the father of the faithful. Perfect happiness and perfect purity dwell only in heaven. Abram, when he must for a time quit Canaan, goes to Egypt, that he might not seem to look back, and meaning to tarry there no longer than…
Genesis 12:19 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Genesis 12:18
And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
- Genesis 12:19
Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
- Genesis 12:20
And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Genesis 12:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Por qué dijiste: Es mi hermana? poniéndome en ocasión de tomarla para mí por mujer? Ahora pues, he aquí tu mujer, tómala y vete. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Pourquoi as-tu dit: Elle est ma sœur, de sorte que je l’ai prise pour ma femme; et maintenant, voici ta femme: prends-la, et va-t’en. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Warum hast du gesagt: Sie ist meine Schwester, so daß ich sie mir zum Weibe nahm? Und nun siehe, da ist dein Weib, nimm sie und gehe hin. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | quam ob causam dixisti esse sororem tuam, ut tollerem eam mihi in uxorem? Nunc igitur ecce conjux tua, accipe eam, et vade. |