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Genesis 20:16 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.” "

Genesis 20:16

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14 Abimelech took sheep and cattle, male servants and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored Sarah, his wife, to him.

15 Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”

16 To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver. Behold, it is for you a covering of the eyes to all that are with you. In front of all you are vindicated.”

17 Abraham prayed to God. So God healed Abimelech, his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

18 For the LORD had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

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Genesis 20:1

"Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar."

Genesis 20:2

"Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah."

Genesis 20:3

"But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”"

Genesis 20:4

"Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?"

Genesis 20:5

"Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”"

Genesis 20:6

"God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her."

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