Matthew Poole Commentary - Genesis 20:12 - 20:12

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Genesis 20:12 - 20:12


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She is my sister, my near kinswoman; even as Lot upon the same account is called Abraham’s brother, Gen_13:8.



She is the daughter of my father, i.e. the granddaughter; for grandchildren are commonly called the sons and daughters of their grandparents, as Gen_31:28 Exo_2:18. And besides, her father Haran dying before her grandfather, she was left more immediately under his care and education, and therefore was more peculiarly reputed Terah’s daughter, and Abraham’s sister. See Gen_11:29.



But not the daughter of my mother, because Haran was Abraham’s brother only by the father’s side; for Terah had Haran by another wife.



How could Abraham marry one so near of kin to him?



Answ. There were larger allowances for marriages in those times, as it was convenient there should be; neither had God as yet given those prohibitions, Lev_18:1-30. Besides, among all nations, the mother’s side was more regarded than the father’s in all prohibitions of marriage.