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His sin in so speaking seems to be much greater than it was before. For —

1. He had narrowly escaped the first time. The repetition of the same fault looked like presuming upon Providence.

2. Sarah was now with child, and that of a son of promise; he might, therefore, surely have trusted God to preserve their lives in the straight-forward path of duty.

(A. Fuller.)

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KJV: And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

WEB: Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.