OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 12:15

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

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Verse 15. Pharao: The usual title of the kings of Egypt, in Ezechiel’s time. Calmet. 32:2. Couriers are often too ready to flatter the passions of the prince: these are punished along with Pharao (verse 17); whence we may conclude, that they concurred with him, to take Sarai against her will.

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