Genesis 20
1 Profectus inde Abraham in terram australem, habitavit inter Cades, et Sur: et peregrinatus est in Geraris.
Abraham traveled towards the Negev, staying between Kadesh and Shur. After that he moved on to live in Gerar.
2 Dixitque de Sara uxore suo, Soror mea est. Misit ergo Abimelech rex Geraræ, et tulit eam.
During his time there, when Abraham told people about his wife Sarah, he said, “She's my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her to become one of his wives.
3 Venit autem Deus ad Abimelech per somnium nocte, et ait illi: En morieris propter mulierem, quam tulisti: habet enim virum.
But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “Listen! You're going to die because the woman you've taken is already married—she has a husband.”
4 Abimelech vero non tetigerat eam, et ait: Domine, num gentem ignorantem et iustam interficies?
Abimelech hadn't touched Sarah, and he asked, “Lord, do you kill good people?
5 Nonne ipse dixit mihi: Soror mea est: et ipsa ait: Frater meus est? In simplictate cordis mei, et munditia manuum mearum feci hoc.
Didn't Abraham tell me himself, ‘She's my sister,’ and didn't Sarah also say, ‘He's my brother’? I did this in all innocence—my conscience is clear!”
6 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.
God told him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this in all innocence, so I prevented you from sinning against me. That's why I didn't let you touch her.
7 Nunc ergo redde viro suo uxorem, quia propheta est: et orabit pro te, et vives: si autem nolueris reddere, scito quod morte morieris tu, et omnia quæ tua sunt.
Send the man's wife back to him. He's a prophet. He will pray for you, and you will live. But if you don't send her back to him, you should know for sure that you and all your family will die.”
8 Statimque de nocte consurgens Abimelech, vocavit omnes servos suos: et locutus est universa verba hæc in auribus eorum, timueruntque omnes viri valde.
Abimelech got up early in the morning and called all his servants together. He explained everything that had happened, and they were all terrified.
9 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? Quæ non debuisti facere, fecisti nobis.
Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and asked him “What have you done to us? How have I wronged you that you should treat me like this, bringing this terrible sin on me and my kingdom? You've done things to me that no one should ever do!”
10 Rursumque expostulans, ait: Quid vidisti, ut hoc faceres?
Then Abimelech asked Abraham “What were you thinking when you did this?”
11 Respondit Abraham: Cogitavi mecum, dicens: Forsitan non est timor Dei in loco isto: et interficient me propter uxorem meam:
“Well, I thought to myself, ‘Nobody respects God in this place. They'll kill me just to get my wife,’” Abraham replied.
12 alias autem et vere soror mea est, filia patris mei, et non filia matris meæ, et duxi eam in uxorem.
“Anyway, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father but not my mother, and I married her.
13 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.
Since my God made me move far away from my family home, I told her, ‘If you really love me, then wherever you go with me you must tell people: He's my brother.’”
14 Tulit igitur Abimelech oves et boves, et servos et ancillas, et dedit Abraham: reddiditque illi Saram uxorem suam,
Then Abimelech gave Abraham gifts of sheep, cattle, and male and female slaves, and returned his wife Sarah to him.
15 et ait: Terra coram vobis est, ubicumque tibi placuerit habita.
Abimelech told him, “Look over my land. You can choose to live anywhere you like.”
16 Saræ autem dixit: Ecce mille argenteos dedi fratri tuo, hoc erit tibi in velamen oculorum ad omnes qui tecum sunt, et quocumque perrexeris: mementoque te deprehensam.
Abimelech also told Sarah, “Notice that I'm giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. This is to compensate you for the wrong done to you in the eyes of everyone with you, and to make sure that your name is publicly cleared.”
17 Orante autem Abraham, sanavit Deus Abimelech et uxorem, ancillasque eius, et pepererunt:
Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female slaves, so that they could have children again.
18 concluserat enim Dominus omnem vulvam domus Abimelech propter Saram uxorem Abrahæ.
For the Lord had made all the women unable to have children because Abraham's wife, Sarah, had been taken.
