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NASB | Genesis 12:19 "Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her and go." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 12:19 "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!" |
Subject: Did Pharaoh divorce Abram's wife, Sarai |
Bible Note: Greetings TommyS - See post 40368 I have always understood this passage as an instance of man taking matters into is own hands and suffering the consequences thereof . . . Instead of trusting God and being honest, Abram constructed a plant to save his own hide at the expense of his wife . . . and Pharaoh might have taken her as his wife as a result of this deception. But I tend to agree that this was a "might of" situation the God averted inspite of Abram's plans! I suggest that the words, "to be" are significant. It places a future inference as opposed to "as" or "for". But this is just inference as I am not a scholar! Since the Law was not yet given, it seems to me that possibly there was no "divorce" as we understand the term. mommapbs |
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