Genesis 20:11-18 ▼

11 And Abraham says, “Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

12 and also, she is truly my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becomes my wife;

13 and it comes to pass, when God has caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I say to her, This [is] your kindness which you do with me: at every place to where we come, say of me, He [is] my brother.”

14 And Abimelech takes sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gives to Abraham, and sends back his wife Sarah to him;

15 and Abimelech says, “Behold, my land [is] before you, where it is good in your eyes, dwell”;

16 and to Sarah he has said, “Behold, I have given one thousand pieces of silver to your brother; behold, it is to you a covering of eyes, to all who are with you”; and by all this she is reasoned with.

17 And Abraham prays to God, and God heals Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear:

18 for YHWH restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.