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I. His CONDUCT WAS VERY COWARDLY. He risked Sarah's virtue, and the purity of the promised seed.

II. IT WAS ALSO VERY DISHONOURING TO GOD.

III. IT ALSO STOOD OUT IN POOR RELIEF AGAINST THE BEHAVIOUR OF ABIMELECH. Lessons:

1. We are never safe, so long as we are in this world.

2. We have no right to throw ourselves into the way of temptation which has often mastered us.

3. We may be encouraged by God's treatment of Abraham's sin.

(F. B. Meyer, B. A.)

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KJV: And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

WEB: Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.