Genesis 20:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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I also withheld. Divine intervention needed. Compare Genesis 20:2. Note the emphatic pronouns. See App-23.

sinning. See App-44.

touch. Here is the Hebrew word naga. touch, used in. clear understandable sense as it is used in Genesis 3:3, "neither shall ye touch it". See note on Genesis 3:3.

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Genesis 20:6

6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.