¹ 亚伯拉罕从那里向南地迁去，寄居在加低斯和书珥中间的基拉耳。

² 亚伯拉罕称他的妻撒拉为妹子，基拉耳王亚比米勒差人把撒拉取了去。

³ 但夜间，神来，在梦中对亚比米勒说：你是个死人哪！因为你取了那女人来；他原是别人的妻子。

⁴ 亚比米勒却还没有亲近撒拉；他说：主阿，连有义的国，你也要毁灭麽？

⁵ 那人岂不是自己对我说他是我的妹子麽？就是女人也自己说：他是我的哥哥。我作这事是心正手洁的。

⁶ 神在梦中对他说：我知道你作这事是心中正直；我也拦阻了你，免得你得罪我，所以我不容你沾着他。

⁷ 现在你把这人的妻子归还他；因为他是先知，他要为你祷告，使你存活。你若不归还他，你当知道，你和你所有的人都必要死。

⁸ 亚比米勒清早起来，召了众臣仆来，将这些事都说给他们听，他们都甚惧怕。

⁹ 亚比米勒召了亚伯拉罕来，对他说：你怎麽向我这样行呢？我在甚麽事上得罪了你，你竟使我和我国里的人陷在大罪里？你向我行不当行的事了！

¹⁰ 亚比米勒又对亚伯拉罕说：你见了甚麽才做这事呢？

¹¹ 亚伯拉罕说：我以为这地方的人总不惧怕神，必为我妻子的缘故杀我。

¹² 况且他也实在是我的妹子；他与我是同父异母，後来作了我的妻子。

¹³ 当神叫我离开父家、飘流在外的时候，我对他说：我们无论走到甚麽地方，你可以对人说：他是我的哥哥；这就是你待我的恩典了。

¹⁴ 亚比米勒把牛、羊、仆婢赐给亚伯拉罕，又把他的妻子撒拉归还他。

¹⁵ 亚比米勒又说：看哪，我的地都在你面前，你可以随意居住；

¹⁶ 又对撒拉说：我给你哥哥一千银子，作为你在阖家人面前遮羞(原文作眼)的，你就在众人面前没有不是了。

¹⁷ 亚伯拉罕祷告神，神就医好了亚比米勒和他的妻子，并他的众女仆，他们便能生育。

¹⁸ 因耶和华为亚伯拉罕的妻子撒拉的缘故，已经使亚比米勒家中的妇人不能生育。

¹ Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

² Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

³ But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

⁴ Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

⁵ Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands have I done this."

⁶ 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.

⁷ Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."

⁸ Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

¹⁰ Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

¹¹ Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

¹² Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

¹³ It happened, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, 'This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, "He is my brother."'"

¹⁴ Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

¹⁵ Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

¹⁶ To Sarah he said, "Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated."

¹⁷ Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

¹⁸ For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.