Sorry Gilberto, I don't agree.
I am really sceptic about the veracity of this story. I can't imagine a Prophet doing this.
Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
On 7/6/06, Hasan Elias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Gilberto, I'm looking for a plausible explication of this inmoral action (to
> me).
Right. And I thought the explanation implied in the text is that
saving a life is more important than saving ones chastity.
-Gilberto
>
> Gilberto Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>escribió:
> Isn't it also explained in the text?
>
> Genesis 12
> [11] When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sar'ai his wife, "I
> know that you are a woman beautiful to behold;
> [12] and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, `This is his
> wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
> [13] Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of
> you, and that my life may be spared on your account."
>
> and again in Genesis 20
> [10] And Abim'elech said to Abraham, "What were you thinking of, that
> you did this thing?"
> [11] Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of
> God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
> [12] Besides she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father but
> not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
> [13] And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said
> to her, `This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which
> we come, say of me, He is my brother.'"
> [14] Then Abim'elech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves,
> and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah his wife to him.
>
> -G
>
> On 7/5/06, Hasan Elias wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi scholars, this is a second question. When I read the Bible I never have
> > understood why men deliver their wives in the hands of other men, I
> consider
> > it a very inmoral thing.
> >
> > Examples:
> >
> > Genesis (Abraham gives Sarah to Pharaoh)
> >
> > 12:18 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that thou hast done
> > unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? 12:19 Why
> saidst
> > thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now
> > therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.
> >
> > Genesis (Abraham gives Sarah to other tuler)
> >
> > 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech
> > king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
> > 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him,
> Behold,
> > thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a
> > man's wife.
> > 20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, wilt thou
> slay
> > also a righteous nation? 20:5 Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and
> > she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart
> > and innocency of my hands have I done this.
> >
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