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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Genesis 20 Literal Standard Version</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/20-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSV</a> > Genesis 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/19.htm" title="Genesis 19">◄</a> Genesis 20 <a href="../genesis/21.htm" title="Genesis 21">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/20-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Abraham journeys from there toward the land of the south, and dwells between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourns in Gerar; <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and Abraham says concerning his wife Sarah, “She is my sister”; and Abimelech king of Gerar sends and takes Sarah. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And God comes to Abimelech in a dream of the night and says to him, “Behold, you [are] a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken—and she married to a husband.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And Abimelech has not drawn near to her, and he says, “Lord, do you also slay a righteous nation? <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Has he not himself said 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.” <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And God says to him in the dream, “Indeed, I have known that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I withhold you, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not permitted you to come against her; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and now send back the man’s wife, for he [is] inspired, and he prays for you, and you live; and if you do not send back, know that dying you die, you and all that you have.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Abimelech rises early in the morning, and calls for all his servants, and speaks all these words in their ears; and the men fear exceedingly; <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and Abimelech calls for Abraham and says to him, “What have you done to us? And what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Works which are not done you have done with me.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Abimelech also says to Abraham, “What have you seen that you have done this thing?” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And Abraham says, “Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>and also, she is truly my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becomes my wife; <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and it comes to pass, when God has caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I say to her, This [is] your kindness which you do with me: at every place to where we come, say of me, He [is] my brother.” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Abimelech takes sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gives to Abraham, and sends back his wife Sarah to him; <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and Abimelech says, “Behold, my land [is] before you, where it is good in your eyes, dwell”; <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>and to Sarah he has said, “Behold, I have given one thousand pieces of silver to your brother; behold, it is to you a covering of eyes, to all who are with you”; and by all this she is reasoned with. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And Abraham prays to God, and God heals Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear: <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for YHWH restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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