Cross references

Genesis 12:13

Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”

Genesis 12:13 BSB

Genesis 12:13 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 26:7 (7 votes) and Genesis 20:2 (6 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 11 to Hebrews 7.

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Which verses does Genesis 12:13 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

  2. Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

  3. Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife. So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

  4. Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

  5. Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?

  6. This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD. He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives. …

  7. Behold, every soul belongs to Me; both father and son are Mine. The soul who sins is the one who will die.

  8. And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.

  9. Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save. When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish. …

  10. John 8:441 vote

    You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Which verses point to Genesis 12:13?

The 10 strongest of 17.