Genesis Chapter 20

Abraham denies his wife.

20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed temporarily in Gerar.
20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are but a dead man, for the woman which you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.
20:4 But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, LORD, will you kill also a righteous nation?
20:5 Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.
20:6 And God said to him in a dream, Yea, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also withheld yall from sinning against me: therefore suffered I yall not to touch her.
20:7 Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for yall, and you shall live: and if you restore her not, know you that you shall surely die, you, and all that are yours.
20:8 Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

Abraham reproved

20:9 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? and what have I offended yall, 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.
20:10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?
20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me for my wife’s sake.
20:12 And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
20:13 And it came to pass, 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; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.
20:14 And Abimelech took sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before yall: stay where it pleases yall.
20:16 And to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to you a covering of the eyes, to all that are with you, and with all other: thus she was reproved.

Abimelech healed

20:17 So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
20:18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.