“As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,”
Genesis 12:11
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- Abram in Egypt: The Fear That Nearly Cost the Promise (Genesis 12)
Why does Abram lie about his wife?
Abram reasoned from fear: Sarai was beautiful, and he expected the Egyptians to kill him and keep her (Genesis 12:12). So he told her to say she was his sister. She was his half-sister (Genesis 20:12), so this half-truth saved him at her expense. The woman through whom the promise had to come was taken into Pharaoh's house, and Abram was paid in livestock for her (Genesis 12:16).
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