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Genesis 12:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. "

Genesis 12:17

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15 The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

17 The LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

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Genesis 16:6

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"But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face."

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Genesis 16:1

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"Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar."

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Nehemiah 9:7

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"You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, brought him out of Ur of the Chaldees, gave him the name of Abraham,"

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Exodus 8:24

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"The LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses. In all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies."

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2 Chronicles 21:14

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"behold, the LORD will strike your people with a great plague, including your children, your wives, and all your possessions;"

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1 Peter 3:6

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"So Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children you now are if you do well and are not put in fear by any terror."

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Genesis 12:1

"Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you."

Genesis 12:2

"I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing."

Genesis 12:3

"I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”"

Genesis 12:4

"So Abram went, as the LORD had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran."

Genesis 12:5

"Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother’s son, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they went to go into the land of Canaan. They entered into the land of Canaan."

Genesis 12:6

"Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time, Canaanites were in the land."

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