Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
- BSB The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
- NKJV But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
- NASB But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
- NLT But the Lord sent terrible plagues upon Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
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Cross-references · 6
- 1 Chr 16:21He allowed no man to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
- Gen 20:18For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Ps 105:14–15He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
- 1 Chr 21:22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
- Heb 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Job 34:19Who doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respects the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
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