These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Genesis 20
Tanakh 18 verses
- 1 And journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
- 2 And said of his wife: ‘She is my sister.’ And Abimelech of Gerar sent, and took .
- 3 But came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him: ‘Behold, thou shalt die, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.’
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Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said: ‘, wilt Thou slay even a righteous nation?
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- 5 Said he not himself unto me: She is my sister? and she, even she herself said: He is my brother. In the simplicity of my and the innocency of my hands have I done this.’
- 6 And said unto him in the dream: ‘Yea, I that in the simplicity of thy thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against Me. Therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
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Now therefore restore the man’s wife; for he is a , and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou restore her not, thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.’
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Job 42:8 1 Samuel 7:5 2 Samuel 24:17 Numbers 16:32-33 2 Kings 5:11 Genesis 2:17 1 John 5:16 Ezekiel 33:8 1 Samuel 12:19 Ezekiel 3:18 Exodus 7:1 1 Corinthians 14:4 Psalm 105:9-15 Leviticus 6:7 1 Samuel 12:23 Job 34:19 Jeremiah 14:11 Jeremiah 15:1 Genesis 12:15 Leviticus 6:4 2 Kings 19:2-4 Hebrews 1:1 1 Kings 13:6 1 Kings 18:1-46 Hebrews 13:4 Psalm 25:14 Exodus 4:16 Ezekiel 33:14-16 1 Chronicles 16:22 Genesis 12:17 James 5:14-16 Revelation 11:5-6 Jeremiah 27:18 Genesis 20:18 Exodus 12:1-3 Exodus 18:17 1 Samuel 7:8 - 8 And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears; and the men were sore afraid.
- 9 Then Abimelech called , and said unto him: ‘What hast thou done unto us? and wherein have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.’
- 10 And Abimelech said unto : ‘What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?’
- 11 And said: ‘Because I thought: Surely the of is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
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And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife.
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And it came to pass, when caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.’
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And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them unto , and restored him his wife.
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And Abimelech said: ‘Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.’
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- 16 And unto he said: ‘Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and before all men thou art righted.’
- 17 And prayed unto ; and healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children.
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For had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Abraham’s wife.
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