Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis Noah's and Lot's drunkenness and David's adultery. On the other hand, commentators such as Allan Turner, in his essay "Lying: Is It Ever Right?", takes the standpoint that the patriarchal individuals did not actually lie, but merely concealed part of the truth. Wife–sister narratives in the Book of Genesis There are three wife-sister narratives in Genesis, part of the Torah, all of which are strikingly similar. The narratives occur in Genesis 12, 20 and 26. At the core of each is the story of a Biblical Patriarch, who has come to be in the land of a powerful foreign overlord
Bible for children Bible for children Children's Bibles, or Bibles for children, are often collections of Bible stories rather than actual translations of the Bible aimed at children. First printed in London in 1759, "The Children's Bible" (Philadelphia, 1763) was the earliest Bible for children printed in America. Story-Bibles include Christian Gottlob Barth's "Bible Stories" which was a popular children's Bible in India during the 1840s, Logan Marshall's "The Wonder Book of Bible Stories" (1904), Arthur S. Maxwell's "The Bible Story" (1953–57) and "The Children's Bible Story Book" (1991) a children's version of the Bible by Anne de Graaf placed in United Kingdom