OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 12:13

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Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

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Verse 13. My sister. This was no lie; because she was his niece, being daughter to his brother Aran, and therefore, in the style of the Hebrews, she might truly be called his sister; as Lot is called Abraham’s brother. Genesis 14:14. See Genesis 20:12. Challoner.—Others say, Sarai was the half-sister of Abraham, by another mother. Bible.

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