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what does Genesis 20:11 mean? I need answer please help

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Genesis 20:11, NIV: "Abraham replied, 'I said to myself, 'There is surely no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.'"

Answer:

within himself, concluding from the general depravity of the Canaanites, that this was the case of the inhabitants of Gerar this is a certain truth, which he thought might be depended upon, and taken for granted, since so it was everywhere this was the only thing he had to plead, that he verily thought with himself that there was no true religion and godliness in Gerar that the inhabitants of it were without any fear of God before their eyes, or in their hearts; and he knew, where this is the case, there is nothing to restrain from the commission of the grossest sins that they might marry her

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