Genesis 20 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Aḇ

² And Aḇ

³ But Elohim came to Aḇ

⁴ However, Aḇ

⁵ “Did he not say 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 Elohim said to him in a dream, “Yea, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. For this reason I did not let you touch her.

⁷ “And now, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and let him pray for you and you live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall certainly die, you and all that are yours.”

⁸ So Aḇ

⁹ And Aḇ

¹⁰ And Aḇ

¹¹ And Aḇ

¹² “And yet, she is truly my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.

¹³ “And it came to be, when Elohim caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said to her, ‘This is your kindness that you should do for me: in every place, wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”

¹⁴ Then Aḇ

¹⁵ And Aḇ

¹⁶ And to Sarah he said, “See, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. See, it is to you a covering of eyes before all who are with you and before all others, and you are cleared before everyone.”

¹⁷ And Aḇ

¹⁸ for יהוה  had closed up all the wombs of the house of Aḇ