But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are about to die because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”[a]

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would you destroy a nation even though it is innocent? Didn’t he himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this with a clear conscience[b] and clean[c] hands.”

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Footnotes

  1. 20:3 Lit is possessed by a husband
  2. 20:5 Lit with integrity of my heart
  3. 20:5 Lit cleanness of my

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