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Genesis 12:13

“Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.””

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¹¹As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,

¹²And when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.

¹³Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”

¹⁴So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

¹⁵When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

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