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Genesis 20:17
Genesis 20:17
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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1. An old sin repeated. "Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister." Twenty years before the same miserable equivocation had been…Genesis 20:14-18Genesis 20:14-18 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleHere is, I. The kindness of a prince which Abimelech showed to Abraham.
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