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Genesis 20:11-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

11. Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:

12. Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.

13. And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: I Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.

14. And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara, his wife.

15. And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.

16. And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember thou wast taken.

17. And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:

18. For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.

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