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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!"

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Bible Question: When Pharaoh sent Sarai back to Abram, was that considered a divorce? Gen 12:19 Pharaoh asked Abram, "Whyd did you say, 'She is my sister', so that I took her for my wife? Here, then is your wife. Take her and be gone."

(I tried to ask this question earlier tonight, but somehow it ended up under "answers".)

Bible Answer: Greetings TommyS,

I was thinking about this very same thing after reading these passages over the past couple of days..

In Genesis 12:10-20, Abram tells Sarai, his wife, to call him "brother" and he would call him "sister", since he feared that his own life would be taken once they saw how beautiful that Sarai was. However, this very same thing happens in Genesis 20:1-18, when Abraham calls Sarah his "sister", even though she is really his wife, and God warns Abimelech in a dream that he is "a dead man" because of Sarah. "Now Abimelech had not approached her."

In looking at these two occurrences, I believe that whatever relationship that was spoken of by "And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house" (v.15) was rescinded by Pharaoh in verse 19, since Pharaoh find out the truth. Therefore, Pharaoh himself ended the 'courtship' or whatever you want to call it with Sarai because she was already married.

Blessings to you,

Makarios

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