3 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.”

4 Now Abimelech had not approached her; so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent people?

5 Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; furthermore it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.

Genesis 20:3-6, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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