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52 thee. ″Say therfore, I pray thee, that thou art my sister: that I may be wel vsed for thee, and that my soule may liue for thy sake.

When Abram therfore was entred into Ægypt, the Ægiptians sawe the woman that she was passing beautiful. And the princes told Pharao, and praised her to him: and the woman was taken into the house of Pharao. And they vsed Abram wel for her sake. And he had sheepe and oxen and he asses, and men seruants, and maid seruants, and shee asses, and Cammels. But our Lord ∷ scourged Pharao with very sore plagues, and his house for Sarai Abrams wife. And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tel me that she was thy wife? For what cause didst thou say, She was thy sister, that I might take her to my wife? Now therfore there is thy wife, take her, and goe thy ways. And Pharao gaue certaine men commandment in the behalfe of Abram: and they conducted him, and his wife, and al that he had.

ANNOTATIONS. XII. 13. Say therfore] Abraham concealed that Sarai was his wife, and lyed not in saying, she was his sister: as he also called Lot his brother, being his brothers sonne, and she his brothers daughter. Wherby he preuented danger of his owne life, vsing such lawful meanes as lay in him, committing his wiues chastitie to Gods protection, which him self could not prouide for. In which case if he had not donne his owne endeuour, he had rather tempted God (saith S Augustin) then trusted in God. And so God preserued her, though she was in Pharao his house. v. 17.

XIII. ''Abram & Lot returne from Ægypt into Chanaan, 6. and being rich separate themselues, 10. Lot choosing the countrie about Iordain, Abram dwelleth in Chanaan. 14. Where againe God promiseth him that land, and multiplication of his seede. 18. And he erected an other Altar to God.''

therfore ascended out of Ægypt, he and his wife, and al that he had, and Lot with him to the south coast.