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This completely revised and updated edition of Nelson’s Illustrated Bible Dictionary is the most comprehensive and up-to-date Bible dictionary available. Designed, written, and edited with the needs of general readers in mind. A wealth of background information is found in more than 7,000 encyclopedic entries on the people, places, things, and doctrines of the Bible. Written in plain language,...

Sarah was his half-sister; they had the same father but different mothers (Gen. 20:12). Sarah was about 65 years old when she and Abraham left Haran (Gen. 12:5; 17:7). Passing through Egypt, Abraham introduced Sarah as his sister, apparently to keep himself from being killed by those who would be attracted by Sarah’s beauty (Gen. 12:10–20; also see 20:1–18). In spite of God’s promise to Abraham that he would become the father of a chosen nation, Sarah remained barren. When she was 75, she decided
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