Holy Scripture
Genesis 12:19
A church father on this verse
“What imagination could adequately conceive amazement at these events? What tongue could manage to express this amazement? A woman dazzling in her beauty is closeted with an Egyptian partner, who is king and tyrant, of such frenzy and incontinent disposition, and yet she leaves his presence untouched, with her peerless…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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In context
17And God afflicted Pharaoh with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
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?
— Genesis 12:19 —
20And Pharaoh gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had.