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The Creation of Adam, Michelangelo

Genesis 20:11

Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512 · Sistine Chapel · Public domainMichelangelo, The Creation of Adam, c. 1512, Sistine Chapel

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Genesis 20:11 (WEB)

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

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  • “…and Jacob Laban’s, just as the daughters of Zelophehad received a lot among their brethren, just as Abraham himself had to wife Sarah his sister, for he says, “She is indeed my sister, on the father’s side, not on the mother’s,” that is to say, she was the daughter of his brother, not of his sister.” — editor's note: Gen. xx. 11.

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