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Douay-Rheims Bible: Genesis — Introduction, Chapter Summaries and Notes by Richard Challoner

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Chapter 12

SummaryThe call of Abram, and the promise made to him. He sojourneth in Chanaan, and then by occasion of a famine, goeth down to Egypt.
[12:13] My sister. . . This was no lie; because she was his niece, being daughter to his brother Aran, and therefore, in the style of the Hebrews, she might truly be called his sister, as Lot is called Abram's brother, Gen. 14.14. See Gen. 20.12.