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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 Catholic Public Domain 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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">CPDV</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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/genesis/20-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Abraham, Sarah, and Abimelech<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Abraham advanced from there into the southern land, and he lived between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he said about his wife Sarah: “She is my sister.” Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: “Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband.” <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In truth, Abimelech had not touched her, and so he said: “Lord, would you put to death a people, ignorant and just? <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and did she not say, ‘He is my brother?’ In the sincerity of my heart and the purity 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 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. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Now therefore, return his wife to the man, for he is a prophet. And he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you are not willing to return her, know this: you shall die a death, you and all that is yours.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And immediately Abimelech, rising up in the night, called all his servants. And he spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were very afraid. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Abimelech called also for Abraham, and he said to him: “What have you done to us? How have we sinned against you, so that you would bring so great a sin upon me and upon my kingdom? You have done to us what you ought not to have done.” <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And remonstrating him again, he said, “What did you see, so that you would do this?” <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Abraham responded: “I thought to myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place. And they will put me to death because of my wife. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Yet, in another way, she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her as a wife. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then, after God led me out of my father’s house, I said to her: ‘You will show this mercy to me. In every place, to which we will travel, you will say that I am your brother.’ ” <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Therefore, Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men servants and women servants, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned his wife Sarah to him. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he said, “The land is in your sight. Dwell wherever it will please you.” <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then to Sarah he said: “Behold, I have given your brother one thousand silver coins. This will be for you as a veil for your eyes, to all who are with you and wherever you will travel. And so, remember that you were taken.” <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they gave birth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/20-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For the Lord had closed every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../genesis/19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Genesis 19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Genesis 19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../genesis/21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Genesis 21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Genesis 21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>