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Genesis 20 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Abraham Lies to Abimelech

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And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the [fn]Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he sojourned in Gerar.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is [fn]married.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - (Now Abimelech had not come near her.) Then he said, “Lord, will You kill a nation, even though righteous?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:5 - “Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself also said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my [fn]hands I have done this.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - Then God said to him in the dream, “Indeed, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also [fn]held you back from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - “So now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”
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So Abimelech arose early in the morning and called all his servants and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were greatly afraid.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:9 - Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And [fn]how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me [fn]things that ought not to be done.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:10 - And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What have you seen, that you have done this thing?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:11 - And Abraham said, “Because I said, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:12 - “Besides, she actually is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - and it happened when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is [fn]the lovingkindness which you will show to me: [fn]everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female slaves and gave them to Abraham and returned his wife Sarah to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:15 - And Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you; [fn]settle wherever it is good in your sight.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother one thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is [fn]your vindication before all who are with you, and before all you are [fn]cleared.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:17 - And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maidservants, so that they bore children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For Yahweh had utterly shut all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
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