Genesis 20:3
Good News Translation
One night God appeared to him in a dream and said, "You are going to die, because you have taken this woman; she is already married."

New Revised Standard Version
But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a married woman.”

Contemporary English Version
But God came to Abimelech in a dream and said, "You have taken a married woman into your home, and for this you will die!"

New American Bible
But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him: You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she has a husband.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.

a dream.

Genesis 28:12 And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.

Genesis 31:24 And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Genesis 37:5,9 Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. . . .

Genesis 40:8 They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:

Genesis 41:1 After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,

*etc:

Job 4:12,13 Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper. . . .

Job 33:15 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:

Matthew 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.

Matthew 2:12,13 And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back another way into their country. . . .

Matthew 27:19 And as he was sitting in the place of judgment, his wife sent to him, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

a dead.

Genesis 20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

Psalm 105:14 He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

Ezekiel 33:14,15 And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice, . . .

Jonah 3:4 And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.

a man's wife.

Context
Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech
2And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her. 3And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.4Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?…
Cross References
Genesis 12:17
But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.

Genesis 12:18
And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?

Genesis 20:7
Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

Genesis 31:24
And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.

Numbers 22:9
What mean these men that are with thee?

1 Chronicles 16:21
He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake.

Psalm 105:14
He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.

Genesis 20:2
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