OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 12:17

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

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Verse 17. Scourged Pharao with unusual pains, sterility, and so forth that he might easily perceive that his taking Sarai was displeasing to God. Bible.—He did not intend to commit adultery indeed, but his conduct was tyrannical and oppressive to the stranger, whom God protects. Psalms 44. Menochius.

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