Gen 12:10-20 (NRSV) |
Gen 20:1-18 (NRSV) |
Gen 26:1-11 (NRSV) |
| {10} Now there was a famine in the land. | {1} Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines. |
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| {2} The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; settle in the land that I shall show you. {3} Reside in this land as an alien, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath that I swore to your father Abraham. {4} I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and will give to your offspring all these lands; and all the nations of the earth shall gain blessing for themselves through your offspring, {5} because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." | ||
| So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land. | {1} From there Abraham journeyed toward the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. | {6} So Isaac settled in Gerar. |
| {11} When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, "I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance; {12} and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, 'This is his wife'; then they will kill me, but they will let you live. {13} Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account." | While residing in Gerar as an alien, {2} Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She is my sister." | {7} When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister"; for he was afraid to say, "My wife," thinking, "or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance." |
| {14} When Abram entered Egypt the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. {15} When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house. {16} And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels. | And King Abimelech of Gerar sent and took Sarah. | |
| {17} But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife. | {3} 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." {4} Now Abimelech had not approached her; so he said, "Lord, will you destroy an innocent people? {5} Did he not himself say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she herself said, 'He is my brother.' I did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands." {6} Then God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; furthermore it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. {7} Now then, return the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all that are yours." {8} So Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants and told them all these things; and the men were very much afraid. | {8} When Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw him fondling his wife Rebekah. |
| {18} So Pharaoh called Abram, and said, "What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? {19} Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife, take her, and be gone." {20} And Pharaoh gave his men orders concerning him; and they set him on the way, with his wife and all that he had. | {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 such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that ought not to be done." {10} And Abimelech said to Abraham, "What were you thinking of, that you did this thing?" {11} Abraham said, "I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. {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} And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'" {14} Then Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham, and restored his wife Sarah to him. {15} Abimelech said, "My land is before you; settle where it pleases you." {16} To Sarah he said, "Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; it is your exoneration before all who are with you; you are completely vindicated." {17} Then Abraham prayed to God; and God healed Abimelech, and also healed his wife and female slaves so that they bore children. {18} For the LORD had closed fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. | {9} So Abimelech called for Isaac, and said, "So she is your wife! Why then did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought I might die because of her." {10} Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us." {11} So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death." |