Holy Scripture
Genesis 12:17
A church father on this verse
“This passage is a great witness and demonstration of the necessity of maintaining chastity, exhorting everyone to show himself chaste, not to long for the bed of another and not to seduce the wife of another, counting on the hope of not being discovered and of going unpunished. It exhorts all not to let themselves be…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17And God afflicted Pharaoh with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
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In context
15that the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh and brought her into the house of Pharaoh.
16And they treated Abram well on her account, and he had sheep, and calves, and asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and mules, and camels.
— Genesis 12:17 —
18And Pharaoh having called Abram, said, What is this thou hast done to me, that thou didst not tell me that she was thy wife?
19Wherefore didst thou say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, thy wife is before thee, take her and go quickly away.