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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 20:3 Catholic Bible: One night God appeared to him in a dream and said, "You are going to die, because you have taken this woman; she is already married." </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/genesis/20-3.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></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="../vmenus/genesis/20-3.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="/bmcc/genesis/20-3.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="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/1.htm">Genesis</a> > <a href="/gntd/genesis/20.htm">Chapter 20</a> > Verse 3</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><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/20-2.htm" title="Genesis 20:2">◄</a> Genesis 20:3 <a href="../genesis/20-4.htm" title="Genesis 20:4">►</a></div></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="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/genesis/20.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/genesis/20.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />One night God appeared to him in a dream and said, "You are going to die, because you have taken this woman; she is already married." <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/20.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a married woman.”<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/genesis/20.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But God came to Abimelech in a dream and said, "You have taken a married woman into your home, and for this you will die!" <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/20.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him: You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she has a husband.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/genesis/20.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.</p><p class="hdg">a dream.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/28-12.htm">Genesis 28:12</a> And he saw in his sleep a ladder standing upon the earth, and the top thereof touching heaven: the angels also of God ascending and descending by it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/31-24.htm">Genesis 31:24</a> And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/37-5.htm">Genesis 37:5,9</a> Now it fell out also that he told his brethren a dream, that he had dreamed: which occasioned them to hate him the more. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/40-8.htm">Genesis 40:8</a> They answered: We have dreamed a dream, and there is nobody to interpret it to us. And Joseph said to them: Doth not interpretation belong to God? Tell me what you have dreamed:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/41-1.htm">Genesis 41:1</a> After two years Pharao had a dream. He thought he stood by the river,</p><p class="hdg2">*etc:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/4-12.htm">Job 4:12,13</a> Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/33-15.htm">Job 33:15</a> By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/1-20.htm">Matthew 1:20</a> But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/2-12.htm">Matthew 2:12,13</a> And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to Herod, they went back another way into their country. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/27-19.htm">Matthew 27:19</a> And as he was sitting in the place of judgment, his wife sent to him, saying: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.</p><p class="hdg">a dead.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/20-7.htm">Genesis 20:7</a> Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/105-14.htm">Psalm 105:14</a> He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-14.htm">Ezekiel 33:14,15</a> And it I shall say to the wicked: Thou shalt surely die: and he do penance for his sin, and do judgment and justice, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jonah/3-4.htm">Jonah 3:4</a> And Jonah arose, and went to Ninive, according to the word of the Lord: now Ninive was a great city of three days' journey.</p><p class="hdg">a man's wife.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/genesis/20.htm">Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">2</span>And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her. <span class="reftext">3</span><span class="highl">And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.</span><span class="reftext">4</span>Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/12-17.htm">Genesis 12:17</a></span><br />But the Lord scourged Pharao and his house with most grievous stripes for Sarai, Abram's wife.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/12-18.htm">Genesis 12:18</a></span><br />And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/20-7.htm">Genesis 20:7</a></span><br />Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../genesis/31-24.htm">Genesis 31:24</a></span><br />And he saw in a dream God, saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../numbers/22-9.htm">Numbers 22:9</a></span><br />What mean these men that are with thee?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_chronicles/16-21.htm">1 Chronicles 16:21</a></span><br />He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/105-14.htm">Psalm 105:14</a></span><br />He suffered no man to hurt them: and he reproved kings for their sakes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/20-2.htm">Abimelech</a> <a href="/genesis/20-2.htm">Abim'elech</a> <a href="/genesis/18-32.htm">Account</a> <a href="/genesis/14-14.htm">Band</a> <a href="/revelation/20-13.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/genesis/19-19.htm">Die</a> <a href="/acts/2-17.htm">Dream</a> <a href="/genesis/19-8.htm">Good</a> <a href="/genesis/19-31.htm">Husband</a> <a href="/genesis/19-14.htm">Married</a> <a href="/genesis/19-35.htm">Night</a> <a href="/genesis/20-2.htm">Wife</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/20-4.htm">Abimelech</a> <a href="/genesis/20-4.htm">Abim'elech</a> <a href="/genesis/21-6.htm">Account</a> <a href="/genesis/49-19.htm">Band</a> <a href="/genesis/23-3.htm">Dead</a> <a href="/genesis/20-7.htm">Die</a> <a href="/genesis/20-6.htm">Dream</a> <a href="/genesis/20-15.htm">Good</a> <a href="/genesis/29-32.htm">Husband</a> <a href="/genesis/24-67.htm">Married</a> <a href="/genesis/24-23.htm">Night</a> <a href="/genesis/20-7.htm">Wife</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/genesis/20-3.htm">Genesis 20:3 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a Abimelech and are as because Behold But came dead dream for God good have him in is man married night of one said she taken the to whom woman You<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/genesis/20-3.htm">OT Law: Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech (Gen. 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