1. Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the arid southern plain, and he settled as an immigrant in Gerar, between Kadesh and Shur.
2. Abraham said of his wife Sarah, "She’s my sister." So King Abimelech of Gerar took her into his household.
3. But God appeared to Abimelech that night in a dream and said to him, "You are as good as dead because of this woman you have taken. She is a married woman."
4. Now Abimelech hadn’t gone near her, and he said, "Lord, will you really put an innocent nation to death?