9. Then Abimelech called Abraham to him. Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? What wrong did I do against you? Why did you bring this trouble to my kingdom? You should not have done these things to me.
10. What were you thinking that caused you to do this?”
11. Then Abraham answered, “I thought no one in this place respected God. I thought someone would kill me to get Sarah.
12. And it is true that she is my sister. She is the daughter of my father. But she is not the daughter of my mother.
13. God told me to leave my father’s house and wander in many different places. When that happened, I told Sarah, ‘You must do a special favor for me. Everywhere we go tell people I am your brother.’”
14. Then Abimelech gave Abraham some sheep, cattle and male and female slaves. Abimelech also gave Sarah, his wife, back to him.
15. And Abimelech said, “Look around you at my land. You may live anywhere you want.”
16. Abimelech said to Sarah, “I gave your brother Abraham 25 pounds of silver. I did this to make up for any wrong that people may think about you. I want everyone to know that you are innocent.”
17. Then Abraham prayed to God. And God healed Abimelech, his wife and his servant girls. Now they could have children.
18. The Lord had kept all the women in Abimelech’s house from having children. This was God’s punishment on Abimelech for taking Abraham’s wife Sarah.