 | Jeremy Taylor - 1851 - 1036 pages
...paternal line : — and Abraham told the king of Gerar concerning Sarah, his wife; " and yet indeed she is my sister, she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ;" that is, the I1 C. cum secund. Leges de Hœret. in 6. ч In ft. ad Nie. r Plut, in Them. • Vide... | |
 | 1851 - 774 pages
...this place: and they will * slay me for my wife's sake. 1 2 And a yet indeed she is my sister; she ts the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass, when b God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her,... | |
 | 1852 - 1170 pages
...same manner we find Abraham (Gen. xx. 12.) using a similar excuse for marrying Sarah : "And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father,...the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife." It is not difficult, therefore, to understand how this notion prevailing among the Greeks, might lead... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1852 - 304 pages
...which Abraham left it; for he and Sarah his wife stood in this relation to each other: ' And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not of my mother; and she became my wife;' Gen. xx. 12. 1 The Roman law continued the prohibition to the... | |
 | Paul Tice - 1999 - 176 pages
...Surely the fear of God is not in this place: and they will slay me for my wife's sake. 12 And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father,...the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife. 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her,... | |
 | 1999 - 844 pages
...at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. 12Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. "And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you... | |
 | Ya'acov Agam - 1993 - 688 pages
...they will slay me for my wife's sake. And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my 12 father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife. And it came to pass, when GOD caused me to wander 13 from my father's house, that I said to her, This... | |
 | Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam Zohar, Yair Lorberbaum - 2000 - 636 pages
...Abraham. For Abraham in excusing himself to Abimelech said, "And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother" (Gen. 20:12). Later the marriage of sisters came to be regarded as indecent. For this reason, the aversion... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 390 pages
...his throne. And all around him his courtiers were in an equal panic with their king. "And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother," continued the humbled Abraham. How dishonest! There are few things the unsaved man despises in the... | |
 | James K. Bruckner - 2002 - 266 pages
...God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, "This is the kindness you must... | |
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And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife. 
