In fact, Pharaoh’s rebuke implies that Abram told the lie: Scripture portrays him as the leader of the journey, with Abraham, Sarah, and Lot in tow. Then she's 90 when she met Abimelech. Both have Terah as their father (or grandfather) and later became the parents of Isaac. He treated Abram well for her sake. In Genesis 26, it is Isaac who lies when, feeling scared when men start asking him about Rebekah, he responds that she is his sister. We do not read how long Sarah was in Abimelech's harem. She is born in Ur of the Chaldees, moves to Haran and then to Canaan (Gen 11:31-12:5).Abraham takes her to Egypt where she is taken into Pharaoh’s house ().God plagues Pharaoh’s house because of Sarah (Gen 12:17-19), which is what leads Pharaoh to return Sarah to Abraham, freeing her (). As we read in connection with the similar incident at Pharaoh's court in chapter 12, the time of preparation for a woman who was to be led to the king could be quite lengthy. In Egypt, Sarai’s beauty attracted the attention of Pharaoh, the ruler of that country. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels. Sarah … One gets the sense from reading Gen. 12:20 that Abraham and Sarah were given a royal escort out of the country by Pharaoh's men. Sarai was taken into Pharaoh’s house, and many gifts were given to Abram (Genesis 12:16). Originally named Sarai which means “my princess”, her named was changed to Sarah meaning “princess” after a covenant with God. She may be a beauty queen in high school but 65? The narrative never states whether Sarah complied with his request. But the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. Do these years truly mean "months". Scripture does not relate how Pharaoh discovered Abraham and Sarah were married, only that once he found out he entreated Abraham and Sarah to leave immediately. Fifteen or twenty years! 3. That's when she met Pharaoh. He had given Abraham a couple of decades to repent of this sin, but he did not do it - so God tested him again. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh's house. Okay, Sarah is 65 years old. In this case we only read that God appeared to … Perhaps Terah was too old to travel anymore. Genesis 12:17 says, “But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.” This seems puzzling. Furthermore, as Sarah was in the company of one of the richest and influential men in the region, Abim elech may have had a political motive. In Genesis 12, Abram urges Sarai to make the false statement. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. Sarah was the wife and half-sister or niece of Abraham. Genesis 12:10-20 records that the same thing occurred between Abraham and Pharaoh fifteen or twenty years earlier. Her beauty was affirmed in Egypt and she was taken into Pharaoh’s harem, where she was protected by God and the truth about her eventually came out. As an aside my understanding of the miracle was that God de-aged Abraham and Sarah (in the Jewish tradition right after Sarah laughs she gets her period for the first time in ages). She appears on the Bible Timeline from 1986 BC to… We don’t know how long Abraham and Sarah remained in Haran. But the first long leg of the journey stalled at Haran, about 650 miles northwest, roughly following the course of the Euphrates. – conceptualinertia Dec 10 '15 at 20:54 How long did God forbear with Abraham? Sarah was already old (at least 65) in the story with Pharoah as well. Sarah often moves with her husband, but she always is in God’s camp, and God in hers.