Genesis 12:18-20

12:18 So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife? 12:19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Here is your wife! Take her and go!” 12:20 Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.


tn The demonstrative pronoun translated “this” adds emphasis: “What in the world have you done to me?” (R. J. Williams, Hebrew Syntax, 24, §118).

tn The preterite with vav (ו) consecutive here expresses consequence.

tn Heb “to me for a wife.”

tn Heb “Look, your wife!”

tn Heb “take and go.”

tn Heb “him”; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.