Genesis 20

vayyissa misham avraham artsah hannegev vayyeshev ben-qadesh uven shur vayyagor bigrar

Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negeb and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was sojourning in Gerar,

vayyomer avraham el-sarah ishto akhoti hiv vayyishlakh avimelekh melekh gerar vayyiqqakh et-sarah

Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

vayyavo elohim el-avimelekh bakhalom hallayelah vayyomer lo hinnekha met al-ha'isha asher-laqakhta vehiv be'ulat ba'al

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

va'avimelekh lo qarav eleha vayyomar adonay hagoy gam-tsaddiq taharog

Now Abimelech had not approached her. He said, “O my Sovereign, will You slay people even though innocent?

halo hu amar-li akhoti hiv vehi-gam-hiv amerah akhi hu betom-levavi uveniqyon kappay asiti zot

He himself said to me, ‘She is my sister’! And she also said, ‘He is my brother.’ When I did this, my heart was blameless and my hands were clean.”

vayyomer elayw ha'elohim bakhalom gam anokhi yadati ki vetom-levavekha asita zot va'ekhsokh gam-anokhi otekha mekhato-li al-ken lo-netattikha lingoa eleha

And God said to him in the dream, “I knew that you did this with a blameless heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. That was why I did not let you touch her.

ve'attah hashev eshet-ha'ish ki-navi hu veyitpallel ba'adkha vekhyeh ve'im-enekha meshiv da ki-mot tamut attah vekhol-asher-lakh

Therefore, restore the man’s wife—since he is a prophet, he will intercede for you—to save your life. If you fail to restore her, know that you shall die, you and all that are yours.”

vayyashkem avimelekh babboqer vayyiqra lekhol-avadayw vayedabber et-kol-haddevarim ha'elleh be'oznehem vayyire'u ha'anashim me'od

Early next morning, Abimelech called his servants and told them all that had happened; and they were greatly frightened.

vayyiqra avimelekh le'avraham vayyomer lo meh-asita lanu umeh-khatati lakh ki-heveta alay ve'al-mamlakhti khata'ah gedolah ma'asim asher lo-ye'asu asita immadi

Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What wrong have I done that you should bring so great a guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.

vayyomer avimelekh el-avraham mah ra'ita ki asita et-haddavar hazzeh

What, then,” Abimelech demanded of Abraham, “was your purpose in doing this thing?”

vayyomer avraham ki amarti raq en-yirat elohim bammaqom hazzeh vaharaguni al-devar ishti

“I thought,” said Abraham, “surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

vegam-omnah akhoti vat-avi hiv akh lo vat-immi vattehi-li le'isha

And besides, she is in truth my sister, my father’s daughter though not my mother’s; and she became my wife.

vayehi ka'asher hitu oti elohim mibbet avi va'omar lah zeh khasdekh asher ta'asi immadi el kol-hammaqom asher navo shammah imri-li akhi hu

So when God made me wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘Let this be the kindness that you shall do me: whatever place we come to, say there of me: He is my brother.’”

vayyiqqakh avimelekh tson uvaqar va'avadim ushefakhot vayyitten le'avraham vayyashev lo et sarah ishto

Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves, and gave them to Abraham; and he restored his wife Sarah to him.

vayyomer avimelekh hinneh artsi lefanekha battov be'enekha shev

And Abimelech said, “Here, my land is before you; settle wherever you please.”

ulesarah amar hinneh natatti elef kesef le'akhikh hinneh hu-lakh kesut enayim lekhol asher ittakh ve'et kol venokhakhat

And to Sarah he said, “I herewith give your brother a thousand pieces of silver; this will serve you as vindication before all who are with you, and you are cleared before everyone.”

vayyitpallel avraham el-ha'elohim vayyirpa elohim et-avimelekh ve'et-ishto ve'amhotayw vayyeledu

Abraham then prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his handmaids, so that they bore children;

ki-atsor atsar Adonai be'ad kol-rekhem levet avimelekh al-devar sarah eshet avraham

for GOD had closed fast every womb of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.