 | 1865 - 248 pages
...I thought, surely, the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake. And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter...the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife. And it came to pass when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This... | |
 | 1866 - 992 pages
...with the practice among the patriarchs. Thus Abraham, after calling his wife his sister, says, — " And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter...the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife." Before closing our notice of that part of this work which relates to the Old Testament — for we find... | |
 | 1868 - 596 pages
...Abimelech for denying his wife, the patriarch replied (Genesis xx. 12): "And yet, indeed, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife." being no men except aliens with whom they might be allied, the two maids agreed together, " and both... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 506 pages
...I thought, 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...the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife. 1s And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her,... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - Bible - 1867 - 980 pages
...answered the rebuke of the Philistine by stating the fears by which he had been actuated, adding, " And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter...daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife." This mends the matter very little, since, in calling her his sister, he designed to be understood as saying... | |
 | Great Britain - 1867 - 972 pages
...with his sister, the daughter of his father," Dent, xxvii. 22. And still Abraham married his sister. " And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter...the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife," Gen. xx. 12. Theeigbtk forbid's stealing, yet the Israelites borrowed nearly all the gold, silver,... | |
 | James Gracey Murphy - Bible - 1867 - 540 pages
...in this place : and they will slay me on account of my wife. 12. And yet in truth she is my sister, 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, that I said unto her,... | |
 | Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1867 - 400 pages
...marriages were consanguineous. The patriarch Abraham declared of Sarah: "And yet indeed she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife." Genesis xx. 12. Lot was the offspring of a similar alliance, and became himself the father of two powerful... | |
 | Robert Smith Candlish - Bible - 1868 - 502 pages
...when tried by the standard of an entirely different state of society and of the social relations. " And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter...the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife " (ver. 12). Marriage was then la\i|ful within degrees since forbidden; and the term sister was commonly... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1869 - 920 pages
...her ' a thousand pieces of silver, desired her • to buy a veil with the money, which might a Gen. xx. 12. ' And yet indeed she is my sister; she is...Athens. It was lawful there to marry a sister by the same mother. Montesquieu (Spirit of Latct, vol. 1. p. 54.) says that this custom was originally owing... | |
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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. 
