1 En Abraham het daarvandaan weggetrek na die Suidland en gaan woon tussen Kades en Sur en in Gerar as vreemdeling vertoef.

2 En Abraham het van Sara, sy vrou, gesê: Sy is my suster. Toe laat Abim,leg, die koning van Gerar, Sara haal.

3 Maar God het in die nag by Abim,leg gekom in 'n droom en vir hom gesê: Kyk, jy sal sterwe ter wille van die vrou wat jy laat haal het, want sy is 'n getroude vrou.

4 Maar Abim,leg het nog nie naby haar gekom nie; daarom het hy gevra: Here, sal U ook 'n regverdige nasie ombring?

5 Het hy my nie self gesê nie: Sy is my suster? En sy het self ook gesê: Hy is my broer. In die onskuld van my hart en in die reinheid van my hande het ek dit gedoen.

6 Daarop antwoord God hom in die droom: Ek weet ook dat jy dit in die onskuld van jou hart gedoen het, en Ek self het jou daarvan teruggehou om nie teen My te sondig nie. Daarom het Ek jou nie toegelaat om haar aan te raak nie.

7 Gee dan nou die man se vrou terug, want hy is 'n profeet; en hy sal vir jou bid, dat jy kan lewe. Maar as jy haar nie teruggee nie, weet dan dat jy sekerlik sal sterwe, jy en almal wat aan jou behoort.

8 Abim,leg is toe die môre vroeg op en het al sy dienaars geroep en die hele saak voor hulle ore vertel. Toe was die manne baie bang.

9 En Abim,leg het Abraham laat roep en hom gevra: Wat het jy ons aangedoen? En wat het ek teen jou gesondig, dat jy oor my en my koninkryk 'n groot sonde gebring het? Dinge wat nie mag gebeur nie, het jy my aangedoen.

10 Verder sê Abim,leg vir Abraham: Wat was jou bedoeling dat jy dit gedoen het?

11 En Abraham antwoord: Ek het gedink daar is regtig geen vrees vir God in hierdie plek nie, sodat hulle my oor my vrou sal doodmaak.

12 En sy is ook werklik my suster; sy is my vader se dogter, maar nie my moeder se dogter nie; en sy het my vrou geword.

13 En toe God my uit die huis van my vader laat omswerf het, het ek aan haar gesê: Dit is die guns wat jy van jou kant aan my moet bewys -- op elke plek waar ons kom, moet jy van my sê: Hy is my broer.

14 Toe neem Abim,leg kleinvee en beeste, ook slawe en slavinne, en gee dit aan Abraham. Ook sy vrou Sara het hy aan hom teruggegee.

15 En Abim,leg sê: Daar lê my land voor jou oop; woon waar dit goed is in jou oë.

16 En vir Sara sê hy: Hier gee ek aan jou broer duisend sikkels silwer. Kyk, dit is vir jou 'n bedekking van die oë met betrekking tot elkeen wat by jou is, sodat jy in elke opsig geregverdig is.

17 Toe het Abraham tot God gebid, en God het Abim,leg gesond gemaak; ook sy vrou en sy slavinne, sodat hulle kon baar.

18 Want die HERE het elke moederskoot van die huis van Abim,leg geheel en al toegesluit ter wille van Sara, die vrou van Abraham.

1 And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said of Sarah, his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took Sarah.

3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

4 Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?

5 Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.

6 And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

7 So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.

8 So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear.

9 Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.

10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?

11 And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

12 And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:

13 And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.

14 Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.

15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.

16 And he said to Sarah, See, I have given to your brother a thousand bits of silver so that your wrong may be put right; now your honour is clear in the eyes of all.

17 Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.

18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.