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Genesis

1 And Abra­ham jour­neyed from thence to­ward the south coun­try, and dwelled be­tween Kadesh and Shur, and so­journed in Ger­ar. 2 And Abra­ham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sis­ter: and Abim­elech king of Ger­ar sent, and took Sarah. 3 But God came to Abim­elech in a dream by night, and said to him, Be­hold, thou art but a dead man, for the wom­an which thou hast tak­en; for she is a man's wife. 4 But Abim­elech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righ­teous na­tion? 5 Said he not unto me, She is my sis­ter? and she, even she her­self said, He is my broth­er: in the in­tegri­ty of my heart and in­no­cen­cy of my hands have I done this. 6 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the in­tegri­ty of thy heart; for I also with­held thee from sin­ning against me: there­fore suf­fered I thee not to touch her. 7 Now there­fore re­store the man his 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 die, thou, and all that are thine. 8 There­fore 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. 9 Then Abim­elech called Abra­ham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and what have I of­fend­ed 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. 10 And Abim­elech said unto Abra­ham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing? 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. 12 And yet in­deed she is my sis­ter; she is the daugh­ter of my fa­ther, but not the daugh­ter of my moth­er; and she be­came my wife. 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 shew unto me; at ev­ery place whith­er we shall come, say of me, He is my broth­er. 14 And Abim­elech took sheep, and ox­en, and menser­vants, and wom­enser­vants, and gave them unto Abra­ham, and re­stored him Sarah his wife. 15 And Abim­elech said, Be­hold, my land is be­fore thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee. 16 And unto Sarah he said, Be­hold, I have giv­en thy broth­er a thou­sand pieces of sil­ver: be­hold, he is to thee a cov­er­ing of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was re­proved. 17 So Abra­ham prayed unto God: and God healed Abim­elech, and his wife, and his maid­ser­vants; and they bare children. 18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abim­elech, be­cause of Sarah Abraham's wife.