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# What prompted you to do this thing?
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"What caused you to do this?" or "Why did you do this?" What Abraham did can be stated explicitly. AT: "Why did you tell me that Sarah is your sister?" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# Because I thought, 'Surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'
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This is a quotation within a quotation. It can be stated as an indirect quotation. AT: "Because I thought that since no one here fears God, someone may kill me so they can take my wife." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotesinquotes]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-quotations]])
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# no fear of God in this place
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Here "place" refers to the people. AT: "no one here in Gerar fears God" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# fear of God
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This means to deeply respect God and show that respect by obeying him.
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# Besides, she is indeed my sister
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"Also, it is true that Sarah is my sister" or "Also, Sarah really is my sister"
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# the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother
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"we have the same father, but we have different mothers"
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/abimelech]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/abraham]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/fear]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/god]] |