For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Avimelekh, because of Sarah, Avraham's wife.
Genesis 20:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) God said to him in the dream, *Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then God said to him in the dream, Yes, I know you did this in the integrity of your heart, for it was I Who kept you back and spared you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not give you occasion to touch her. American Standard Version (1901) And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her. Common English Bible God said to him in the dream, “I know that your intentions were pure when you did this. In fact, I kept you from sinning against me. That’s why I didn’t allow you to touch her. Catholic Public Domain Version And God said to him: "And I know that you have acted with a sincere heart. And therefore I kept you from sinning against me, and I did not release you to touch her. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her. |
For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Avimelekh, because of Sarah, Avraham's wife.
Avimelekh charged all the people, saying, *He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.*
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'*
God came to Lavan, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, *Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya`akov either good or bad.*
Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn't allow him to hurt me.
They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Ya`akov.
He isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?*
Against you, and you only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in your sight; that you may be proved right when you speak, and justified when you judge.
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your God, three times in the year.
The king's heart is in the LORD's hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
*If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against the LORD, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor,
While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, *Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.*
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Therefore, *'Come out from among them, and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing. I will receive you.
Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
For the mystery of lawlessness already works. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
Now therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, seeing the LORD has withheld you from blood guiltiness, and from avenging yourself with your own hand, now therefore let your enemies, and those who seek evil to my lord, be as Naval.
For in very deed, as the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, lives, who has withheld me from hurting you, except you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn't have been left to Naval by the morning light so much as one boy.