 | John Cumming - 1854 - 396 pages
...character of the man, — "and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And yet, indeed, she is my sister — she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of niy mother ; and she became my wife." This is his own simple explanation of it. He does not justify... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 476 pages
...Abraham married his own niece ; but in Genesis he himself is recorded as saying : " She is my sister ; the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife." We are told he returned from Egypt " with sheep and oxen, he-asses and she-asses,... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - 1855 - 516 pages
...Abraham married his own niece ; but in Genesis he himself is recorded as saying : " She is my sister ; the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife." We are told he returned from Egypt " with sheep and oxen, he-asses and she-asses,... | |
 | John Macfarlane - 1856 - 84 pages
...not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. 12 And m 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. 13 And it came to pass, when God " caused me minds, checking their inclination... | |
 | John Kitto - 1855 - 676 pages
...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, but not 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,... | |
 | John Markwell - 1856 - 284 pages
...of Abraham having his sister to wife, as 20th chapter 12 verse. " 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" This was the same by the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities round... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1857 - 1030 pages
...and consequently, the sister of Lot. But Abraham said of her to Abimilech, "She s indeed my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." Such intermarriages had not, in that age of the world, been prohibited bj... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 810 pages
...and consequently, the sister of Lot. But Abraham said of her to Abimilech, "She is indeed my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." Such intermarriages had not, in that age of the world, been prohibited by... | |
 | M. M. Kalisch - 1858 - 554 pages
...of God 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, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. 13. And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her,... | |
 | 1858 - 652 pages
...connection was but one degree more remote — one of these informing us in relation to his wife, " She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and sho became my wife." It is to be borne in mind, however, that every action which the inspired historian... | |
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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. 
