Genesis 12:15
Good News Translation
Some of the court officials saw her and told the king how beautiful she was; so she was taken to his palace.

New Revised Standard Version
When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Contemporary English Version
The king's officials told him about her, and she was taken to his house.

New American Bible
When Pharaoh’s officials saw her they praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

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And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.

princes.

Esther 2:2-16 And the king's servants and his officers said: Let young women be sought for the king, virgins and beautiful, . . .

Proverbs 29:12 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

Hosea 7:4,5 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened. . . .

Pharaoh was a common name of the Egyptian kings, and signified a 'ruler,' or 'king,' or 'father of his country.'

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Exodus 2:5,15 And behold the daughter of Pharao came down to wash herself in the river: and her maids walked by the river's brink. And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought, . . .

1 Kings 3:1 And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon, and he made affinity with Pharao, the king of Egypt: for he took his daughter, and brought her into the city of David: until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the Lord, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

2 Kings 18:21 Dost thou trust in Egypt a staff of a broken reed, upon which if a man lean, it will break and go into his hand, and pierce it? so is Pharao, king of Egypt, to all that trust in him.

Jeremiah 25:19 Pharao the king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people,

Jeremiah 46:17 Call ye the name of Pharao king of Egypt, a tumult time hath brought.

Ezekiel 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their streams.

taken.

Genesis 20:2 And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.

Esther 2:9 And she pleased him, and found favour in his sight. And he commanded the eunuch to hasten the women's ornaments, and to deliver to her her part, and seven of the most beautiful maidens of the king's house, and to adorn and deck out both her and her waiting maids.

Psalm 105:4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore.

Proverbs 6:29 The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
14And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful. 15And the princes told Pharao, and praised her before him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao.16And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen and he asses, and men servants, and maid servants, and she asses, and camels.…
Cross References
Genesis 12:14
And when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw the woman that she was very beautiful.

Genesis 20:2
And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.

Genesis 12:14
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