5. Didn’t he say to me, ‘She’s my sister’? And she herself even said, ‘He’s my brother.’ I did this with integrity of my heart and guiltlessness of my hands.”
6. Then God said to him in a dream, “Yes, I myself knew that you did this with integrity of your heart, so I, yes I Myself prevented you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not allow you to touch her.
7. So now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet. And let him pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will surely die—you and all who are yours.”
8. Abimelech rose early in the morning, called all his servants and spoke all these words in their ears—and the men were very frightened.
9. Then Abimelech called to Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us, and how have I sinned against you, that you brought great sin upon me and my kingdom? You’ve done to me things that should not be done!”
10. Abimelech also said to Abraham, “What motivated you to do this thing?”
11. Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘There is certainly no fear of God in this place, so they’ll kill me, because of my wife.’
12. And besides, she really is my sister. She’s my father’s daughter, though not my mother’s daughter. Then she became my wife.
13. So when God made me wander away from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your loyalty that you must show me: in every place we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’”
14. Then Abimelech took sheep, cattle, male slaves and female slaves and gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him.
15. Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Dwell wherever it pleases you.”
16. At the same time he said to Sarah, “Look, I’ve given a thousand shekels to your brother. Look, it is compensation for everything that happened—so to everyone with you, you are vindicated.”
17. Then Abraham prayed to God and God healed Abimelech, his wife and his female slaves so that they could bear children.
18. For Adonai had completely locked up every womb in Abimelech’s household because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.