9. Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that you have brought this terrible sin to me and my kingdom, by doing to me something that simply isn’t done?"
10. Abimelech said to Abraham, "What were you thinking when you did this thing?"
11. Abraham said, "I thought to myself, No one reveres God here and they will kill me to get my wife.
12. She is, truthfully, my sister—my father’s daughter but not my mother’s daughter—and she’s now my wife.
13. When God led me away from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is the loyalty I expect from you: in each place we visit, tell them, “He is my brother.”’"
14. Abimelech took flocks, cattle, male servants, and female servants, and gave them to Abraham; and Abimelech returned his wife Sarah.
15. Abimelech said, "My land is here available to you. Live wherever you wish."
16. To Sarah, he said, "I’ve given your brother one thousand pieces of silver. It means that neither you nor anyone with you has done anything wrong. Everything has been set right."
17. Abraham prayed to God; and God restored Abimelech, his wife, and his women servants to health, and they were able to have children.
18. Because of the incident with Abraham’s wife Sarah, the Lord had kept all of the women in Abimelech’s household from having children.