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Genesis 20:3

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a dream: Genesis 28:12, Genesis 31:24, Genesis 37:5, Genesis 37:9, Genesis 40:8, Genesis 41:1-36; Job 4:12-13, Job 33:15; Matthew 1:20; Matthew 2:12-13, Matthew 27:19

a dead: Genesis 20:7; Psalms 105:14; Ezekiel 33:14-15; Jonah 3:4

a man's wife: Heb. married to an husband

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