1. Abraham moved to the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was living in Gerar,
2. Abraham told everyone that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar sent men to take Sarah.
3. God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, “You’re going to die because of the woman that you’ve taken! She’s a married woman!”
4. Abimelech hadn’t come near her, so he asked, “Lord, will you destroy a nation even if it’s innocent?
5. Didn’t he tell me himself, ‘She’s my sister,’ and didn’t she even say, ‘He’s my brother’? I did this in all innocence and with a clear conscience.”
6. “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience,” God said to him in the dream. “In fact, I kept you from sinning against me. That’s why I didn’t let you touch her.