Genesis 20:9-18 ▼

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, |What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done.|

10 Abimelech said to Abraham, |What were you thinking, to do this thing?|

11 Abraham said, |Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place, so they will kill me because of my wife.'

12 Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

13 It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, |He is my brother.|'|

14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

15 Abimelech said, |Look, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.|

16 To Sarah he said, |Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Look, it is to cover the offense against you before all who are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.|

17 Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

18 For God had made every woman infertile in the household of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.