Then Abimelech asked, “What is your purpose in doing this?”
So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “How could you do this to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
Abimelech summoned Abraham and asked him, “What is this trick you have played on us? I did nothing wrong to you. Why would you bring such great guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done to me what no one should ever do to another.”
Abraham answered, “Because I thought, ‘There’s no one here that fears God. They will kill me to get to my wife.’