Genesis Chapter 20

• Genesis 20:1
  Genesis.
• Genesis 20:2
  Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.
• Genesis 20:3
  Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
• Genesis 20:4
  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is ...
• Genesis 20:5
  Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?
• Genesis 20:6
  Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocenc...
• Genesis 20:7
  God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Th...
• Genesis 20:8
  Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that ...
• Genesis 20:9
  Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.
• Genesis 20:10
  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 kingdo...
• Genesis 20:11
  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”
• Genesis 20:12
  Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’
• Genesis 20:13
  Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
• Genesis 20:14
  When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of m...
• Genesis 20:15
  Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.
• Genesis 20:16
  Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
• Genesis 20:17
  To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with yo...
• Genesis 20:18
  Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.
• Genesis 20:19
  For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.