Genesis 20
1 And Abraham journeys from there toward the land of the south, and dwells between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourns in Gerar;
Profectus inde Abraham in terram australem, habitavit inter Cades, et Sur: et peregrinatus est in Geraris.
2 and Abraham says concerning his wife Sarah, “She is my sister”; and Abimelech king of Gerar sends and takes Sarah.
Dixitque de Sara uxore suo, Soror mea est. Misit ergo Abimelech rex Gerarae, et tulit eam.
3 And God comes to Abimelech in a dream of the night and says to him, “Behold, you [are] a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken—and she married to a husband.”
Venit autem Deus ad Abimelech per somnium nocte, et ait illi: En morieris propter mulierem, quam tulisti: habet enim virum.
4 And Abimelech has not drawn near to her, and he says, “Lord, do you also slay a righteous nation?
Abimelech vero non tetigerat eam, et ait: Domine, num gentem ignorantem et iustam interficies?
5 Has he not himself said to me, She [is] my sister! And she, even she herself, said, He [is] my brother; in the integrity of my heart, and in the innocence of my hands, I have done this.”
Nonne ipse dixit mihi: Soror mea est: et ipsa ait: Frater meus est? in simplicitate cordis mei, et munditia manuum mearum feci hoc.
6 And God says to him in the dream, “Indeed, I have known that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I withhold you, even I, from sinning against Me, therefore I have not permitted you to come against her;
Dixitque ad eum Deus: Et ego scio quod simplici corde feceris: et ideo custodivi te ne peccares in me, et non dimisi ut tangeres eam.
7 and now send back the man’s wife, for he [is] inspired, and he prays for you, and you live; and if you do not send back, know that dying you die, you and all that you have.”
Nunc ergo redde viro suo uxorem, et orabit pro te; quia propheta est, et vives: si autem nolueris reddere, scito quod morte morieris tu, et omnia quae tua sunt.
8 And Abimelech rises early in the morning, and calls for all his servants, and speaks all these words in their ears; and the men fear exceedingly;
Statimque de nocte consurgens Abimelech, vocavit omnes servos suos: et locutus est universa verba haec in auribus eorum, timueruntque omnes viri valde.
9 and Abimelech calls for Abraham and says to him, “What have you done to us? And what have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Works which are not done you have done with me.”
Vocavit autem Abimelech etiam Abraham, et dixit ei: Quid fecisti nobis? quid peccavimus in te, quia induxisti super me et super regnum meum peccatum grande? quae non debuisti facere, fecisti nobis.
10 Abimelech also says to Abraham, “What have you seen that you have done this thing?”
Rursumque expostulans, ait: Quid vidisti, ut hoc faceres?
11 And Abraham says, “Because I said, Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;
Respondit Abraham: Cogitavi mecum, dicens: Forsitan non est timor Dei in loco isto: et interficient me propter uxorem meam:
12 and also, she is truly my sister, daughter of my father, only not daughter of my mother, and she becomes my wife;
alias autem et vere soror mea est, filia patris mei, et non filia matris meae, et duxi eam in uxorem.
13 and it comes to pass, when God has caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I say to her, This [is] your kindness which you do with me: at every place to where we come, say of me, He [is] my brother.”
Postquam autem eduxit me Deus de domo patris mei, dixi ad eam: Hanc misericordiam facies mecum: In omni loco, ad quem ingrediemur, dices quod frater tuus sim.
14 And Abimelech takes sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gives to Abraham, and sends back his wife Sarah to him;
Tulit igitur Abimelech oves et boves, et servos et ancillas, et dedit Abraham: reddiditque illi Saram uxorem suam,
15 and Abimelech says, “Behold, my land [is] before you, where it is good in your eyes, dwell”;
et ait: Terra coram vobis est, ubicumque tibi placuerit habita.
16 and to Sarah he has said, “Behold, I have given one thousand pieces of silver to your brother; behold, it is to you a covering of eyes, to all who are with you”; and by all this she is reasoned with.
Sarae autem dixit: Ecce mille argenteos dedi fratri tuo, hoc erit tibi in velamen oculorum ad omnes qui tecum sunt, et quocumque perrexeris: memento te deprehensam.
17 And Abraham prays to God, and God heals Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear:
Orante autem Abraham, sanavit Deus Abimelech et uxorem, ancillasque eius, et pepererunt:
18 for YHWH restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
concluserat enim Dominus omnem vulvam domus Abimelech propter Saram uxorem Abrahae.
