1. Abraham advanced from there into the southern land, and he lived between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.
2. And he said about his wife Sarah: "She is my sister." Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.
3. Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: "Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband."
4. In truth, Abimelech had not touched her, and so he said: "Lord, would you put to death a people, ignorant and just?
5. Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister,' and did she not say, 'He is my brother?' In the sincerity of my heart and the purity of my hands, I have done this."
6. And God said to him: "And I know that you have acted with a sincere heart. And therefore I kept you from sinning against me, and I did not release you to touch her.