"coloring the truth" - my words, not Rashi's or Abraham's, I could have used different phrases but - I thought this was a list about semantics in Hebrew, not English.
The point being, that for whatever reasons Avraham thought he needed to "lie" (which is not the point of this discussion, but we can cite that, too...commentaries explain that in verse 2) - he did his best to remain as close to the truth as possible.
What difference does it make what you or I think would have been simpler to have been written in the Torah, the Torah is very precise in every single letter, including missing ones, and enlarged ones, why it is written the way it is written.
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