Genesis Chapter 20 verse 12 Holy Bible
And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
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And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
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But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
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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.
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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.
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Moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
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and also, truly she is my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becometh my wife;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 12. - And yet indeed she is my sister. This was the second of the patriarch's extenuating pleas, that he had not exactly lied, having uttered at least a half truth. She is the daughter of my father (Temh), But not the daughter of my mother. That Sarah was the grand-daughter of Terah, i.e. the daughter of Haran, and sister of Lot, in other words, Iscah, has been maintained (Josephus, Augustine, Jerome, Jonathan). That she was Terah's niece, being a brother's daughter adopted by him, has received some support (Calvin); but there seems no reason for departing from the statement of the text, that she was her husband's half-sister, i.e. Terah's daughter by another wife than Abraham's mother (Rosenmüller, Kalisch, Keil, Knobel). And she became my wife.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(12) Not the daughter of my mother.--This disproves the notion that Sarah was the same as Iscah (Genesis 11:29); for as Iscah was Terah's granddaughter, the distinction between the identity of the father and the diversity of the mother would in her case be unmeaning. Sarah was apparently Abraham's half-sister, being Terah's daughter by another wife; and we gather from her calling her child Sarai--that is, princely (see Genesis 17:15)--that she was not a concubine, but belonged to some noble race.
