Genesis 20:12
Modern Translations
New International Version
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not of my mother; and she became my wife.

New Living Translation
And she really is my sister, for we both have the same father, but different mothers. And I married her.

English Standard Version
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

Berean Study Bible
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.

New American Standard Bible
Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife;

NASB 1995
"Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife;

NASB 1977
“Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife;

Amplified Bible
Besides, she actually is my [half] sister; she is the daughter of my father [Terah], but not of my mother; and she became my wife.

Christian Standard Bible
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

Contemporary English Version
Besides, she is my half sister. We have the same father, but different mothers.

Good News Translation
She really is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not of my mother, and I married her.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Besides, she is my sister-my father's daughter but not my mother's. She is also my wife.

International Standard Version
Besides, she really is my sister—she's my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter—so she could become my wife.

NET Bible
What's more, she is indeed my sister, my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter. She became my wife.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

New King James Version
But indeed she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

King James 2000 Bible
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

New Heart English Bible
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

World English Bible
Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

American King James Version
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

American Standard Version
And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

A Faithful Version
And yet truly she is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother. And she became my wife.

Darby Bible Translation
But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

English Revised Version
And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

Webster's Bible Translation
And yet indeed she is my sister: she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Yet in very deede she is my sister: for she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she is my wife.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Yet in very deede she is my sister, for she is ye daughter of my father, though she be not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wyfe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And of a trueth she is my sister, for she is my fathers doughter, but not my mothers doughter, and is become my wife.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
yet in very dede she is my sister the doughter of my father but not of my mother: and became my wyfe.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and also, she is truly my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becomes my wife;

Young's Literal Translation
and also, truly she is my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becometh my wife;

Smith's Literal Translation
And truly also my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother: and she was to me for wife.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Yet, in another way, she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her as a wife.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
However, she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and she became to me a wife.

Lamsa Bible
And yet truly she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For truly she is my sister by my father, but not by my mother, and she became my wife.
















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