When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
Parallel translations
- KJV And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
- BSB So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
- NKJV So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.
- NASB Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
- NLT And sure enough, when Abram arrived in Egypt, everyone noticed Sarai’s beauty.
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Cross-references · 4
- Gen 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
- Gen 39:7After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”
- Gen 6:2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
- Matt 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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