Genesis 20:9-18 ▼

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked him, |What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such great sin against me and my kingdom? You've done things to me that ought not to have been done.|

10 Abimelech also asked Abraham, |What could you have been thinking when you did this?|

11 |I thought that there's no fear of God in this place,| Abraham replied, |and that they would kill me because of my wife.

12 Besides, she really is my sister—she's my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter—so she could become my wife.

13 When God caused me to journey from my father's house, I asked her to do me this favor and say, 'He's my brother.'|

14 So Abimelech took some sheep and oxen, and some male and female servants, gave them to Abraham, returned his wife Sarah to him,

15 and said, |Look! My land is available to you, so settle wherever you please.|

16 Abimelech also told Sarah, |Look! I am giving your brother 1,000 pieces of silver to vindicate you in the eyes of all who are with you. As a result, you will be completely vindicated.|

17 Then Abraham interceded with God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants so they could bear children,

18 since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech's household on account of Abraham's wife Sarah.