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Genesis 12:18-20
New English Translation
Genesis 12:18-20
New English Translation
18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this[a] 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[b] to be my wife?[c] Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”[d] 20 Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram,[e] and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.
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- Genesis 12:18 tn The demonstrative pronoun translated “this” adds emphasis: “What in the world have you done to me?” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118).
- Genesis 12:19 tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.
- Genesis 12:19 tn Heb “to me for a wife.”
- Genesis 12:19 tn Heb “take and go.”
- Genesis 12:20 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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