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[1]And Abraham departed thence towarde the south countrey, & dwelled betweene Cades and Sur, and soiourned in Gerar |
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[2]And Abraham sayde of Sara his wyfe, she is my syster: And Abimelech kyng of Gerar sent, and fet Sara away |
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[3]But God came to Abimelech by night in a dreame, and saide to hym: See, thou art but a dead man for the womans sake whiche thou hast taken away, for she is a mans wyfe |
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[4]But Abimelech had not yet touched her: and he sayde, Lorde wylt thou slay ryghteous people |
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[5]Saide not he vnto me, she is my sister? yea and she her selfe sayde, he is my brother: with a single heart, and innocent handes haue I done this |
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[6]And God sayde vnto him in a dreame: I wote well that thou dyddest it in the singlenesse of thy heart: I kept thee also that thou shuldest not sinne against me, and therefore suffred I thee not to touche her |
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[7]Nowe therefore delyuer the man his wyfe agayne, for he is a prophete, and he shall pray for thee, that thou mayest lyue: But and yf thou delyuer her not agayne, be sure that thou shalt dye the death, [both thou] and all that thou hast |
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[8]Therefore, Abimelech rysyng vp betimes in the mornyng, called all his seruauntes, and tolde all these sayinges in their eares: and the men were sore afrayde |
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[9]Then Abimelech called Abraham, & sayde vnto hym: What hast thou done vnto vs? & what haue I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me & on my kingdome [so] great a sinne? thou hast done deedes vnto me that ought not to be done |
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[10]And Abimelech saide vnto Abraham: what sawest thou that thou hast done this thyng |
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[11]Abraha aunswered: For I thought [thus] surely the feare of God is not in this place, and they shal slaye me for my wyues sake |
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[12]Yet in very deede she is my sister, for she is ye daughter of my father, though she be not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wyfe |
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[13]And after God caused me to wander out of my fathers house, I sayde vnto her: this kyndnesse shalt thou shewe vnto me, in all places where we come, that thou say of me, he is my brother |
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[14]Then toke Abimelech sheepe and oxen, men seruauntes and women seruauntes, & gaue [them] vnto Abraham, and delyuered hym Sara his wyfe agayne |
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[15]And Abimelech sayde: beholde my lande lyeth before thee, dwell where it pleaseth thee best |
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[16]But vnto Sara he saide: See I haue geuen thy brother a thousand peeces of syluer: beholde, it is as a coueryng of thyne eyes vnto all that are with thee, and to all [other:] and thus she was reproued |
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[17]And so Abraham prayed vnto God, & God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maydens, & they bare chyldren |
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[18]For the Lorde had closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Abrahams wyfe |