Genesis

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: Genesis 19:31
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Zoar and settled in the mountains where against me. That's why I didn't allow you to he and his two daughters lived in a cave. touch her. 'Now return the man's wife. He's 3 The older daughter said to the younger, a prophet; he will pray for you so you may "Our father is old, and there are no men in live. But if you don't return her, know that the land to sleep with us as is the custom you and everyone with you will die!" everywhere. 32 Come on, let's give our fa- Abimelech got up early in the ther wine to drink, lie down with him, and ing and summoned all of his servants. we'll have children from our father.” 33 That When he told them everything that had night they served their father wine, and the happened, the men were terrified. 'Then older daughter went in and lay down with Abimelech summoned Abraham and said her father, without him noticing when she to him, "What have you done to us? What lay down or got up.34 The next day the older sin did I commit against you that you have daughter said to the younger, “Since I lay brought this terrible sin to me and my kingdown with our father last night, let's serve dom, by doing to me something that simply him wine tonight too, and you go in and lie isn't done?” 10 Abimelech said to Abraham, down with him so that we will both have “What were you thinking when you did this children from our father.” 35 They served thing?" their father wine that night also, and the "Abraham said, “I thought to myself, younger daughter lay down with him, with- No one reveres God here and they will kill out him knowing when she lay down or got me to get my wife. 12 She is, truthfully, my up. Both of Lot's daughters became preg- sister-my father's daughter but not my nant by their father. 37The older daughter mother's daughter-and she's now my wife. gave birth to a son and named him Moab. 13When God led me away from my father's He is the ancestor of today's Moabites. household, I said to her, 'This is the loyalty I 38 The younger daughter also gave birth to expect from you: in each place we visit, tell a son and named him Ben-ammi. He is the them, “He is my brother.””. ancestor of today's Ammonites.
14 Abimelech took flocks, cattle, male
servants, and female servants, and gave Abraham and Sarah visit Gerar
them to Abraham; and Abimelech returned Abraham traveled from there toward his wife Sarah. 15 Abimelech said, "My land L Uthe land of the arid southern plain, is here available to you. Live wherever you and he settled as an immigrant in Gerar, be- wish.” 16 To Sarah, he said, “I've given your tween Kadesh and Shur. Abraham said of brother one thousand pieces of silver. It his wife Sarah, “She's my sister.” So King Abi- means that neither you nor anyone with melech of Gerar took her into his household. you has done anything wrong. Everything
3But God appeared to Abimelech that has been set right.” 17Abraham prayed to night in a dream and said to him, “You are God; and God restored Abimelech, his wife, as good as dead because of this woman you and his women servants to health, and have taken. She is a married woman." they were able to have children. 18 Because
"Now Abimelech hadn't gone near her, of the incident with Abraham's wife Sarah, and he said, “Lord, will you really put an in- the LORD had kept all of the women in Abinocent nation to death? Didn't he say to melech's household from having children. me, 'She's my sister, and didn't she-even she-say, 'He's my brother? My intentions Isaac's birth were pure, and I acted innocently when I The LORD was attentive to Sarah just did this."
L las he had said, and the LORD carried God said to him in the dream, “I know out just what he had promised her. She that your intentions were pure when you became pregnant and gave birth to a son did this. In fact, I kept you from sinning for Abraham when he was old, at the very
o 'Or son of my people