Genesis 12:14
New International Version
When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.

New Living Translation
And sure enough, when Abram arrived in Egypt, everyone noticed Sarai’s beauty.

English Standard Version
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Berean Standard Bible
So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

King James Bible
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

New King James Version
So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful.

New American Standard Bible
Now it came about, when Abram entered Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

NASB 1995
It came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

NASB 1977
And it came about when Abram came into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now it happened when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Amplified Bible
And when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was very beautiful.

Christian Standard Bible
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And it happened that when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw his wife that she was very beautiful.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt - the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful -

Contemporary English Version
As soon as Abram and Sarai arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians noticed how beautiful she was.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw how very beautiful his wife was.

Good News Translation
When he crossed the border into Egypt, the Egyptians did see that his wife was beautiful.

International Standard Version
As Abram was entering Egypt, the Egyptians noticed how beautiful Sarai was.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

Literal Standard Version
And it comes to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she [is] exceedingly beautiful;

Majority Standard Bible
So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

New American Bible
When Abram arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

NET Bible
When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

New Revised Standard Version
When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

New Heart English Bible
It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass, that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

World English Bible
When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, at the entering of Abram into Egypt, that the Egyptians see the woman that she is exceeding fair;

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Context
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
13Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.” 14So when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15When Pharaoh’s officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.…

Cross References
Genesis 12:13
Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared."

Genesis 12:15
When Pharaoh's officials saw Sarai, they commended her to him, and she was taken into the palace of Pharaoh.

Genesis 29:17
Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.


Treasury of Scripture

And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

beheld.

Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

Genesis 6:2
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

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Genesis 12
1. God calls Abram, and blesses him with a promise of Christ.
4. He departs with Lot from Haran, and comes to Canaan.
6. He journeys through Canaan,
7. which is promised to him in a vision.
10. He is driven by famine into Egypt.
11. Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister.
14. Pharaoh, having taken her from him, is compelled to restore her.
18. Pharaoh reproves Abram, whom he dismisses.














(14, 15) Pharaoh is not the name of a person, but was the title borne by all the Egyptian monarchs.

Verses 14, 15. - And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. The princes also - literally, and the pronces (שָׂרֵי, mas. of Sarah), chief men or courtiers, who, in accordance with the ancient custom of Egypt that no slave should approach the priestly person of Pharaoh, were sons of the principal priests (vide Havernick, § 18) - of Pharaoh. The official title of the kings of Egypt (cf. Caesar, the designation of the Roman emperors, and Czar, that of the Emperor of Russia), who are never introduced in the Pentateuch, as in later books, by their individual names (1 Kings 3:1; 9:40); an indirect evidence that the author of Genesis must at least have been acquainted with the manners of the Egyptian Court. The term Pharaoh, which continued in use till after the Persian invasion - under the Greek empire the Egyptian rulers were styled Ptolemies - is declared by Josephus to signify "king" ('Ant.,' 8:06, 2), which agrees with the Koptic Pouro (Piouro; from ouro, to rule, whence touro, queen), which also means king. Modern Egyptologers, however, in. cline to regard it as corresponding to the Phra of the inscriptions (Rosellini, Lepeius, Wilkinson), or to the hieroglyphic Peraa, or Perao, "the great house (M. de Rouge, Brugsch, Ebers), an appellation which belonged to the Egyptian monarchs, and with which may be compared "the Sublime Porte," as applied to the Turkish sultans (cf. Canon Cook in 'Speaker's Commentary,' vol. 1. p. 47?). The particular monarch who occupied the Egyptian throne at the time of Abram's arrival has been conjectured to be Necao (Josephus, 'Bell. Jud.,' 5. 9:4), Ramessemenes (Syncellus, p. 101), Pharethones (Euseb., 'Praep. Ev.,' 9:8), Apappus (Wilkinson, 'Anc. Egypt.,' vol. 1. p. 13, note 5, Dr. Bitch's edition), Achthoes, the sixth king of the eleventh dynasty (Osburn, 'Men. Hist. of Egypt,' vol. 1. Genesis 7. p. 375), Salatis or Saitas, the first king of the fifteenth dynasty, whose reign commenced B.C. 2080 (Stuart Peele in 'Smith's Dict.,' art. Pharaoh), a monarch belonging to the sixteenth dynasty of shepherd kings (Kalisch), and a Pharaoh who flourished between the middle of the eleventh and thirteenth dynasties, most probably one of the earliest Pharaohs of the twelfth (Canon Cook in 'Speaker's Commentary,' vol. 1. p. 447). Amid such conflicting testimony from erudite archaeologists it is apparent that nothing can be ascertained with exactitude as to the date of Abram's sojourn in Egypt; though the last-named writer, who exhibits the latest results of scholarship on the question, mentions in support of his conclusion a variety of considerations that may be profitably studied. Saw her. So that she must have been unveiled, which agrees with monumental evidence that in the reign of the Pharaohs the Egyptian ladies exposed their faces, though the custom was discontinued after the Pemian conquest (vide Hengstenberg's 'Egypt and the Books of Moses,' p. 199). And commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken. Capta (Targum of Jonathan), rapta (Arab.), abducta (Pagnini), capta et deducta (Rosenmüller); all implying more or less the idea of violence, which, however, besides being not warranted by the text, was scarcely likely in the circumstances, the king being perfectly honorable in his proposals, and Abram and Sarai by their deception having rendered it impossible to object without divulging their secret. Into Pharaoh's house. Or harem, with a view to marriage as a secondary wife. Cf. the Papyrus D'Orbiney, now in the British Museum, but belonging to the age of Rameses II., in which the Pharaoh of the time, acting on the advice of his counselors, sends two armies to fetch a beautiful woman by force, and then to murder her husband. A translation by M. Renouf will be found in The Tale of the Two Brothers, in 'Records of the Past,' vol. 2. p. 138.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So
וַיְהִ֕י (way·hî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

when Abram
אַבְרָ֖ם (’aḇ·rām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 87: Abram -- 'exalted father', the original name of Abraham

entered
כְּב֥וֹא (kə·ḇō·w)
Preposition-k | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

Egypt,
מִצְרָ֑יְמָה (miṣ·rā·yə·māh)
Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa

the Egyptians
הַמִּצְרִים֙ (ham·miṣ·rîm)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's 4713: Egyptian -- inhabitant of Egypt

saw
וַיִּרְא֤וּ (way·yir·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7200: To see

that
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

the woman
הָ֣אִשָּׁ֔ה (hā·’iš·šāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

was very
מְאֹֽד׃ (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

beautiful.
יָפָ֥ה (yā·p̄āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 3303: Fair, beautiful


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