"She is My Sister"

She is My Sister
Joshua 24:1 (Jushua=saviour or whose help is Jehovah)
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem(=back or shoulder) and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and presented themselves before God. :2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah(=station), the father of Abraham(=father of many nations), and the father of Nahor(=snorting): and they served others gods. :3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him through out all the land of Canaan(=low, flat land), and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac(=laughter).
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Joshua 24:13
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not(Gen 11:1), and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. :14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.
Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. :16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;
Joshua 24:19
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord; for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. :20 If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. :21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord. :22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Gen 12:1
Now the Lord had said unto Abram(=higher father), Get thee out of thy country, and from the kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee. :2 And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shall be a blessing. :3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all familes of the earth be blessed. :4 So Abram departed,
as the Lord had spoken unto him: and Abram was Seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran(=a mountaineer).
Gen 12:5 And Abram took Sarai(=my princess) his wife, and Lot(=veil or covering) his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the Land of Canaan they came.
Gen 12:6
And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem(=Shechem-back or shoulder), unto the plain of Moreh(=teacher) and the Canaanite was then in the land. :7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said; unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him. :8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel(=house of God), on the west, and Hai(=Ai-heap of ruins) on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
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Gen 8:20
And Noah(=comfort, rest) builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fould, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. :21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground anymore for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Gen 4:25
And Adam(=red earth) knew his wife again, and she bare a son, and called his name Seth(=compensation): For God, said she hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel(=breath, vapor, transitory) who Cain(=possession) slew. :26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos(=mortal man): then began MEN to call upon the name of THE LORD.
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Gen 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech(1Cor 1:10). :2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shi-nar(=country of two rivers)(later known as Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans); and they dwelt there. :3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
Gen 11:4 (#4=earth, or the land)
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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Joshua 24:11
And ye went over Jordan(=the descender), and came unto Jericho(=place of fragrance): and the men of Jericho fought against you, The Amorites(=dwellers on the summits, mountaineers)(Gen 10:6,:15), and the Perizzites(=belonging to a village), and the Canaanites(=of the low land), and the Hittites(=descendants of Heth(=terror, Gen 10:15), and the Girgashites(=dwelling of a clayey soil)(Gen 10:16), the Hivites(=villagers, of Canaan, the son of Ham, Gen 10:17), and the Jebusites(descendants of Jebus(=threshing-floor, from the third son of Canaan, Gen 10:16); and I delivered them into your hand.
Joshua 24:12
And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. :13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
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Luke 19:21
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layest not down, and reapest that thou dist not sow. :22 (ip) out of thy mouth will I judge thee.

Gen 12:11
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt(=land of the Copts, The Iron Furnance Deut 4:20, 1Ki 8:51, Jer 4:11), that he said unto Sarai his wife,
BEHOLD NOW, I KNOW THAT THOU ART A FAIR WOMAN TO LOOK UPON(Gen 24:16, Rebekah).
:12 THEREFORE IT SHALL COME TO PASS(Abram's prophesied-see Gen 20:7-he is a prophet),
when the Egyptians shall SEE thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.
Gen 12:13
Say, I PRAY THEE,
thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee. :14 And IT CAME TO PASS, that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. :15 The princes also of Pharoah SAW her, and commended her before Pharoah: and the woman was taken into Pharoahs house. :16 he entreated Abram well for her sake. and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses and camels. :17 And the Lord plagued Pharoah and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abrams' wife. :18 (ip) what is this that thou hast done unto me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? :19 Why saidst thou, SHE IS MY SISTER? so I might have taken her to me to wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way. :20 And Pharoah commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Gen 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt(-the Iron Furnance), he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. :2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Gen 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south to Bethel(=house of God), unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel(=the house of God) and Ha-I(=heap of ruins). :4 Unto the place of the altar which he had made there at the first, Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Gen 13:5 (#5=Grace or mercy)
And Lot also,which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tent(s).
Gen 13:6 (#6=Man)
And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. :7 And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land. :8 And Abram said unto Lot,
LET THERE BE NO STRIFE, I PRAY THEE, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen: FOR WE BE BRETHREN.
Gen 13:9 (#9=judgement)
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I PRAY THEE, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left. :10 And Lot lifted up his EYES, and beheld all the plain of Jordan that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom(=burning) and Gormorrah(=submersion), even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar(=smallness).
Gen 13:;11 (#11=confusion, confounded)
The Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan(=the descender); and Lot(=veil or covering) journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. :12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in THE CITIES of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. :13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.
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Gen 14:1-13
Gen 14:12
And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed. :13 And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew(=fm Eber=the region beyond, the other side); for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre(=strength, fatness) the Amorite, brother of Eshcol(=cluster of grapes), and brother of A-ner(=boy): and these were confederate with Abram. :14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants(Lev 25:44), born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan(=a judge)
Gen 14:15-17
Gen 14:18
And Mel-chiz-ed-ek(=king of righteousness) king of Salem(=peace) brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God. :19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram(Gen 12:2) of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth.
Gen 14:21 (ip)
Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. :22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom(=burning), I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, :23 That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatcher, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say,
I HAVE MADE ABRAM RICH: :24 Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.
Gen 15:1
After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram(the prophet, Gen 20:7) in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. :2 And Abram said, Lord God, what wil thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer(=God is his help) of Damascus(=?, the head of Syria Isa 7:8)? :3 And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
Gen 15:4 And behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying,
This shall not be thine heir, but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
Gen 15:7
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur(=?, Strongs #218=Light, Flame) of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. :8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? :12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and lo, and horror of great darkness fell upon him.
Gen 15:13
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years(400 yrs); :14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. :15 And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. :16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Gen 15:17
And it came to pass, that when the sun went down, and it was dark, Behold, a smoking furnance, and a burning lamp that passed between thoses pieces(Gen 15:10). :18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates(=the good and abounding river):
Gen 17:1 (ip)
I am Almight God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
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Gen 6:9 (ip)
Noah was a just man and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with God.
Gen 17:4
As for me, Behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. :5 Neither shall thy name be called Abram(=a higer father): but thy name shall be Abraham(=father of a multitude, father of many nations); for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Gen 17:15
And God said unto Abraham, as for Sarai(=my princess) thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah(=Princess) shall her name be. :19 (ip) thou shalt call his name Isaac(=laughter). :17 (ip) Abraham, and laughed, and said in his heart....
Gen 18:12 (ip)
Sarah, laughed /within herself.
Gen 18:16-19
Gen 18:20
And the Lord said, because the cry of Sodom(=burning) and Gomorrah(=submersion) is great, and because their sin is very grievous; :21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me, and if not, I will know. :23 (ip) wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? :26 (ip) If I find in Sodom fifty(#50=Liberty, Jubilee, Pentecost) righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their(the fifty) sakes.
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Jer 15:1
Then said the Lord unto me, Though Moses(=drawn from the water) and Samuel(=asked of God) stood before me, yet my mind could not be toward this people: cast them out of my sight, and let them go forth.
Eze 14:14
Though these three men, Noah(=comfort, rest), Daniel(=God is my judge), and Job(=persecuted), were in it(the land), they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.
Gen 19:1
And there came two angels(=messengers of God) to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; :7 And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly. :8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.
Gen 19:9 (#9=judgement)
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, then with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. :15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wfe, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. :16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto him: and they brought forth, and set him without the city. :23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar(=smallness, Gen 13:10). Gen 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
Gen 19:37 (ip) called his name Moab(=of his father)----The Moabites
Gen 19:38 (ip) called his name Ben Ammi----The Ammonites
Gen 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh(=holy) and Shur(=a wall), and sojourned in Gerar(=a lodging place). :2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech(=father of the king) king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah. :3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man's wife. :4 But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nations? :5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? And she, even, she herself said;
He is My Brother: in the integreity of my heart, and, innocency of my hands have I done this. :6 And God said unto him in a dream, yea, I know that thou didst this in the integreity of thy heart: for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. :7 Now therefore restore the man his wife: for HE IS A PROPHET and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
Gen 20:10 (#10=testimony)
And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? :11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.
Gen 20:12
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. :13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her,
This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; At every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
Gen 20:17
So Abraham prayed unto God(see Gen 20:7): and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservant; and they bare children. :18 For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
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Gen 21:1-4
Gen 21:5
And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. :6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
Gen 21:9
And Sarah saw the son of Hagar(=flight) the Egyptian, which she had born(Gen 16:11, Ishmael=whom God hears) unto Abraham, mocking.
Gen 21:20
Gen 21:22
And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol(=strong) the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee(Immanuel) in all that thou doest. :23 Now, Therefore, Swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor my son's son, but according to kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast SOJOURNED.
Gen 21:26
Gen 21:27
And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant. :29 (ip) what mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves? :30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shall thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well. :31 Wherefore he called that place BeerSheba(=well of the oath); because there they sware both of them. :32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines(=immigrants). :33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God.
Gen 22:1
And it came to pass, after these things, that God did tempt(test) Abraham, and he said, Behold, here I am. :2 and he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah(=chosen by Jehovah); and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. :4 Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off. :5 And Abraham said unto his young men(servants), abide ye here with the ass; and I and the land will go yonder to worship, and come again to you:
Gen 22:6
Gen 22:7 (ip)
My father: And he said, Here am I, My son. Where is the lamb for a burnt offerings? :8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering, so they went both of them together. :11 (ip) Abraham, Abraham, and he said, Here am I(3rd time). :12 And he said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for NOW I KNOW THAT THOU FEAREST GOD, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Gen 22:16-17
Gen 22:18
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. :19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to BeerSheba; and Abraham dwelt at BeerSheba.
Gen 22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah(=queen or counsel), she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor(=snorting); :23 And Bethuel(=dweller in God) begat Rebekah(=ensnarer): these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
Gen 24:15
And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder. :16 And the damsel was VERY FAIR to look upon(Gen 12:11), a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
Gen 24:27
And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren.
Gen 25:11 (ip)
That God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well La Hai Roi(=the well of the living God)
Gen 26:1
And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar(see Gen 21:23). :2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. :3 (ip) and I will be with thee. :6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar(=a lodging place). :7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, SHE IS MY SISTER; for he feared to say, SHE IS MY WIFE; lest said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
Gen 26:8
Gen 26:9
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold of a surety, SHE IS THY WIFE: and how saidst thou, SHE IS MY SISTER? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, lest I die for her.
Gen 26:11
Gen 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
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Gen 26:15
For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. :20 And the herdmen of Gerar did STRIVE with Isaac's herdmen, saying, the water is ours and he called the name of the well Esek(=contention), because they STROVE with him. :21 And they digged anothe well, and STROVE for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah(=strife). :22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they STROVE NOT; and he called the name of it Rehoboth(=wide places); and he said, FOR NOW THE LORD HATH MADE ROOM FOR US, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
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