◄ Genesis 12:17 ►
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Good News Translation
But because the king had taken Sarai, the LORD sent terrible diseases on him and on the people of his palace.

New Revised Standard Version
But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Contemporary English Version
Because of Sarai, the LORD struck the king and everyone in his palace with terrible diseases.

New American Bible
But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.

Genesis 20:18 For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

1 Chronicles 16:21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake.

1 Chronicles 21:22 And David said to him: Give me this place of thy thrashingfloor, that I may build therein an altar to the Lord: but thou shalt take of me as much money as it is worth, that the plague may cease from the people.

Job 34:19 Who accepteth not the persons of princes: nor hath regarded the tyrant, when he contended against the poor man: for all are the work of his hands.

Psalm 105:14,15 He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes. . . .

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
…16And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels. 17But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.18And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?…
Cross References
Genesis 20:3
And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Genesis 20:18
For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

1 Chronicles 16:21
He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake.

Psalm 105:14
He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

Genesis 12:16
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