Abram & Sarai - Abraham & Sarah Part Two

For now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality] face to face. Now I know in part [just in fragments], but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known [by God]. 1 Corinthians 13:12 AMP

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Your Question
Why in Genesis does Abraham and his wife keep going into kingdoms and saying they are just brother and sister?   Zeb 11/8/16

Part One 
​As a background
Brief outline of the life of Abraham
Take a look at the first part summarizing the chapters in Genesis that have to do with Abraham's life.   

Part Two: 2 Chapters you refer to in your question
Genesis Chapters 12 and 20 in two columns

Part Three 
A Brief Commentary 
Man's Fallen Condition
God's Continued Love & Grace
Before the Law of Moses,
During the Law of Moses and finally
in the days of God's love shown in the birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus to the full day. ​

​Part Two
The Green indicates the Brother/Sister references
The Black indicates general text of the story
The Yellow indicates where or how the Lord intervened
The Red Burgundy is where we follow Abraham
Blue headers and names

Abram Journeys to the Negev then to Egypt Blessed but Deceptive

​Genesis Chapter 12 

​Now [in Haran] the Lord had said to Abram,

“Go away from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house,
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To the land which I will show you;

Promise One
2 And [a] I will make you a great nation,

Promise Two
And I will bless you [abundantly],

Promise Three
And make your name great (exalted, distinguished);

Promise Four
​And you shall be a blessing [a source of great good to others];

Promise Five
3 And I will bless (do good for, benefit) those who bless you,

Promise Six
And I will curse [that is, subject to My wrath and judgment] the one who curses (despises, dishonors, has contempt for) you.

Promise Seven
And in you all the families (nations) of the earth will be blessed.”

Abram at 75

4 So Abram departed [in faithful obedience] as the Lord had directed him; and Lot [his nephew] left with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 

5 Abram took Sarai his wife (age 66) and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had acquired, and the people (servants) which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 

6 Abram passed through the land as far as the site of Shechem, to the [great] terebinth (oak) tree of Moreh.

Now the [b] Canaanites were in the land at that time. 

​7 Then the Lord appearedto Abram and said, 
“I will give this land to your descendants.” 

So Abram built an altar (at Sheckem at the great oak tree of Moreh) 
there to [honor]
​the Lord who had appeared to him. 

8 Then he moved on from there 

Between the House of God and Heap of Ruins

to the mountain on the east of Bethel (house of God), and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai (heap of ruins) on the east;

and there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord 

[in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving]. 

9 Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev (the South country of Judah).
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10 Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down intoEgypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.

11 And when he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, 

“Listen: I know that you are [c] a beautiful woman; 12 so when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me [to acquire you], but they will let you live. 

13 Please tell them that you are [d] my sister... so that things will go well for me for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.” 

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

15 Pharaoh’s princes (officials) also saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken [for the purpose of marriage] into Pharaoh’s house (harem).

16 Therefore Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

17 But the Lord punished Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 

18 Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 

19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her and go!” 

20 So Pharaoh told his men concerning him; and they escorted him on his way, with his wife and all that he had.

​Amplified Bible (AMP)
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