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Abimelech retoreth Sarah.

And they made their father drink wine that night alo: and the younger aroe, and lay with him; and he perceived not when he lay down, nor when he aroe.

Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

And the firtborn bare a on, and called his name Moab: the ame is the father of the Moabites unto this day.

And the younger, he alo bare a on, and called his name Ben-ammi: the ame is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.

1 Abraham ojourneth at Gerar, and denieth his wife; Abimelech taketh her, but is reproved of God in a dream, and commanded to retore her. 9 He rebuketh Abraham, who excueth himelf. 14 Sarah is retored with preents after a gentle reproof. 17 Abimelech and his houe are healed at Abraham's prayer.

Abraham journeyed from thence toward the outh country, and dwelled between Kadeh and Shur, and ojourned in Gerar.

And Abraham aid of Sarah his wife, She is my iter: and Abimelech king of Gerar ent, and took Sarah.

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and aid to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hat taken; for he is † a man's wife.

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he aid,, wilt thou lay alo a righteous nation?

Said he not unto me, She is my iter? and he, even he herelf aid, He is my brother: in the ‖ integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

And God aid unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didt this in the integrity of thy heart; for I alo withheld thee from inning againt me: therefore uffered I thee not to touch her.

Now therefore retore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he hall pray for thee, and thou halt live: and if thou retore her not, know thou that thou halt urely die, thou, and all that are thine.

Therefore Abimelech roe early in the morning, and called all his ervants, and told all thee things in their ears: and the men were ore afraid.

¶ Then Abimelech called Abraham, and aid unto him, What hat thou done unto us? and what have I offended thee, that thou hat brought on me and on my kingdom a great in? thou hat done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.

And Abimelech aid unto Abraham, What awet thou, that thou hat done this thing?

And Abraham aid, Becaue I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will lay me for my wife's ake.

And yet indeed he is my iter; he is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and he became my wife.

And it came to pas, when God caued me to wander from my father's houe, that I aid unto her, This is thy kindnes which thou halt hew unto me; at every place whither we hall come, ay of me, He is my brother.

¶ And Abimelech took heep, and oxen, and menervants, and womenervants, and gave them unto Abraham, and retored him Sarah his wife.

And Abimelech aid, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell † where it pleaeth thee.

And unto Sarah he aid, Behold, I have given thy brother a thouand pieces of ilver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus he was reproved.

¶ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidervants; and they bare children.

For the had fat cloed up all the wombs of the houe of Abimelech, becaue of Sarah Abraham's wife.

1 Iaac is born, and circumcied. 6 Sarah's joy. 9 Hagar and Ihmael are cat forth at Sarah's intance, and by God's direction. 15 Hagar in ditres is relieved and comforted by an angel. 22 Abimelech's covenant with Abraham, 33 who calleth upon the  in Beer-heba.

the viited Sarah as he had aid, and the  did unto Sarah as he had poken.

For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a on in his old age, at the et time of which God had poken to him.

And Abraham called the name of his on that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Iaac.

And Abraham circumcied his on Iaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his on Iaac was born unto him.

¶ And Sarah aid, God hath made me to laugh, o that all that hear will laugh with me.

And he aid, Who would have aid unto Abraham, that Sarah hould have