Brenton Greek Septuagint — GEN chapter 20
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Work: Septuagint
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Septuagint — Brenton Greek source, 52 supplied books
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GEN 20:1 Καὶ ἐκίνησεν ἐκεῖθεν Ἁβραὰμ εἰς γῆν πρὸς Λίβα· καὶ ᾤκησεν ἀνὰ μέσον Κάδης, καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον Σούρ· καὶ παρῴκησεν ἐν Γεράροις. GEN 20:2 Εἶπε δὲ Ἁβραὰμ περὶ Σάῤῥας τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἀδελφή μου ἐστίν· ἐφοβήθη γὰρ εἰπεῖν ὅτι γυνή μου ἐστὶ, μή ποτε ἀποκτείνωσιν αὐτὸν οἱ ἄνδρες τῆς πόλεως διʼ αὐτήν· ἀπέστειλε δὲ Ἀβιμέλεχ βασιλεὺς Γεράρων, καὶ ἔλαβε τὴν Σάῤῥαν. GEN 20:3 Καὶ εἰσῆλθεν ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς Ἀβιμέλεχ ἐν ὕπνῳ τὴν νύκτα, καὶ εἶπεν, ἰδοὺ σὺ ἀποθνήσκεις περὶ τῆς γυναικὸς, ἧς ἔλαβες· αὕτη δέ ἐστι συνῳκηκυῖα ἀνδρί. GEN 20:4 Ἀβιμέλεχ δὲ οὐχ ἥψατο αὐτῆς· καὶ εἶπε, Κύριε, ἔθνος ἀγνοοῦν καὶ δίκαι…
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- Septuagint — Brenton Greek source, 52 supplied books
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- grc
- Source language
- grc
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- All 52 supplied book exports, 1103 actual chapter units and28597verse rows in exact eBible grcbrent distribution. Source lettered verse suffixes, source book order, Greek accents/words and numbering retained verbatim. Source has Greek Esther ESG, Greek Daniel DNG, Susanna, Bel, LetterJeremiah and1–4Maccabees as supplied. This is the Brenton Greek historical witness export with its own supplied coverage, not every manuscript, recension or reconstructed Septuagint book. Upstream VPL Bible-text-only export excludes notes, introductions and apparatus. Reader navigation selects source biblical book codes; each passage contains one actual source chapter.
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- Unverified edition; not Human Sealed
Recorded provenance: All supplied VPL rows retained verbatim, including lettered verse references. Only actual chapter separators become two LF for native edition body; original rawVPL remains immutable. Greek text is the source language of this Septuagint witness, without a claim of original Hebrew text. All 52 supplied book exports, 1103 actual chapter units and28597verse rows in exact eBible grcbrent distribution. Source lettered verse suffixes, source book order, Greek accents/words and numbering retained verbatim. Source has Greek Esther ESG, Greek Daniel DNG, Susanna, Bel, LetterJeremiah and1–4Maccabees as supplied. This is the Brenton Greek historical witness export with its own supplied coverage, not every manuscript, recension or reconstructed Septuagint book. Upstream VPL Bible-text-only export excludes notes, introductions and apparatus. Reader navigation selects source biblical book codes; each passage contains one actual source chapter.
Work translation availability: HSLT — No published edition · HSRT — No published edition. A translation of this Work may not cover this exact passage.
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