The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
Parallel translations
- WEB The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
- BSB When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.
- NKJV The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.
- NASB Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
- NLT When the palace officials saw her, they sang her praises to Pharaoh, their king, and Sarai was taken into his palace.
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Quick answer
Pharaoh's officials praised Sarai, and she was taken into his house. The promised wife is now in grave peril.
Overview
Sarai is brought into Pharaoh's household, threatening both the marriage and the promised seed. Abram's deception has left his wife defenseless and the covenant in jeopardy. At this point of human failure, God himself will act to preserve his purposes, showing that the promise stands on divine faithfulness.
Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 20:2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
- Ps 105:4Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
- 2 Kgs 18:21Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.
- Heb 13:4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- Prov 6:29So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- Exod 2:15Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
- Prov 29:12If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.
- Gen 41:1And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.
- 1 Kgs 3:1And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- Jer 46:17They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.
- Exod 2:5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river’s side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
- Gen 40:2And Pharaoh was wroth against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers.
- Hos 7:4–5They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
- Esth 2:2–16Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
- Ezek 32:2Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
- Jer 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;
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From the first promise that the seed of the woman would crush the serpent (3:15), through Abraham's blessing to all nations and Judah's coming ruler, Genesis sows every seed that flowers in Christ — the true offspring, the better Adam, the ram caught for Isaac.
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