10. What were you thinking when you did this?
11. Abraham answered:I did it because I didn't think any of you respected God, and I was sure that someone would kill me to get my wife.
12. Besides, she is my half-sister. We have the same father, but different mothers.
13. When God made us leave my father's home and start wandering, I told her, “If you really love me, you will tell everyone that I am your brother.”
14. Abimelech gave Abraham some sheep, cattle, and slaves. He sent Sarah back
15. and told Abraham that he could settle anywhere in his country.
16. Then he said to Sarah, “I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver as proof to everyone that you have done nothing wrong.”
17-18. Meanwhile, God had kept Abimelech's wife and slaves from having children. But Abraham prayed, and God let them start having children again.