8. Early the next morning Abimelech called all his officials and told them what had happened, and they were terrified.
9. Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? What wrong have I done to you to make you bring this disaster on me and my kingdom? No one should ever do what you have done to me.
10. Why did you do it?”
11. Abraham answered, “I thought that there would be no one here who has reverence for God and that they would kill me to get my wife.
12. She really is my sister. She is the daughter of my father, but not of my mother, and I married her.
13. So when God sent me from my father's house into foreign lands, I said to her, ‘You can show how loyal you are to me by telling everyone that I am your brother.’ ”