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?
5. Didn’t he say to me, ‘She’s my sister,’ and didn’t she—even she—say, ‘He’s my brother’? My intentions were pure, and I acted innocently when I did this."
6. God said to him in the dream, "I know that your intentions were pure when you did this. In fact, I kept you from sinning against me. That’s why I didn’t allow you to touch her.