20: 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
20: 3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
20: 4 Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, 266Jehovah, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?
266So some Hb. mss. Sopherim changed to Lord,
20: 5 Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.
20: 6 And God said unto him in the dream, Yes, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
20: 7 Now therefore restore the man’s wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely begin to die, thou, and all that are thine.
20: 8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.
20: 9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? And wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
20: 10 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?
20: 11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
20: 12 And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
20: 13 and it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me: at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
20: 14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham and restored him Sarah his wife.
20: 15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.
20: 16 And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, 267it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and 268in respect of all thou art righted.
267Or, he is
268Or, before all men thou art righted.
20: 17 And Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children.
20: 18 For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
