1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev, and stayed between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourns in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said concerning his wife Sarah, “She is my sister”. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent men and took Sarah. 3 And God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night and said to him, “Look, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken—and she is married to a husband.” 4 And Abimelech had not drawn near to her, and he said, “Lord, do you also slay a righteous nation? 5 Had he not himself said to me, She is my sister! And she, even she herself, said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart, and in the innocence of my hands, I have done this.” 6 And God said to him in the dream, “Indeed, I have known that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I withhold you, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not permitted you to come against her. 7 And now send back the man’s wife, for he is inspired, and he prays for you, and you live. And if you do not send her back, know that in dying you die, you and all that you have.” 8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called for all his servants, and spoke all these words in their ears. And the men feared exceedingly. 9 And Abimelech called for Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Works which are not done you have done with me.” 10 Abimelech also said to Abraham, “What have you seen that you have done this thing?” 11 And Abraham said, “Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife. 12 And also, she is truly my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she became my wife. 13 And it comes?will come to pass, when God has caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I say to her, This is your kindness which you do with me: at every place to where we come, say of me, He is my brother.” 14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave them to Abraham, and sent back his wife Sarah to him. 15 And Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you, where it is good in your eyes, stay.” 16 And to Sarah he had said, “Look, I have given one thousand pieces of silver to your brother. Look, it is to you a covering of eyes, to all who are with you”. And by all this she was reasoned with. 17 And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore: 18 for YHWH restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.