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I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I
suffered thee not to touch her.
7 Now therefore restore the man his wife, for
he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and
thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her,
know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all
that are thine.
8 And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the
night, called all his servants: and spoke all these
words in their hearing, and all the men were ex-
ceedingly afraid.
9 And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and
said to him: What hast thou done to us? what
have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought
upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin?
thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not
to do.
10 And again he expostulated with him, and
said: What sawest thou, that thou hast done
this?
11 Abraham answered: I thought with myself,
saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in
this place: and they will kill me for the sake of
my wife:
12 Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my
sister, the daughter of my father, and not the
daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.
13 And after God brought me out of my fa-
ther’s house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me
this kindness: In every place, to which we shall
come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.
14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and
servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham:
and restored to him Sara his wife,
15 And said: The land is before you, dwell
wheresoever it shall please thee.
16 And to Sara he said: Behold I have given
thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall
serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that
are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go:
and remember thou wast taken.
17 And when Abraham prayed, God healed
Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and
they bore children:
18 For the Lord had closed up every womb
of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara,
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And the Lord visited Sara, as he had promised:
and fulfilled what he had spoken.
2 And she conceived and bore a son in her old
age, at the time that God had foretold her.
3 And Abraham called the name of his son,
whom Sara bore him, Isaac.
4 And he circumcised him the eighth day, as
God had commanded him,
5 When he was a hundred years old: for at
this age of his father, was Isaac born.
6 And Sara said: God hath made a laughter
for me: whosoever shall hear of it will laugh with
me.
7 And again she said: Who would believe that
Abraham should hear that Sara gave suck to a
son, whom she bore to him in his old age?
8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and
Abraham made a great feast on the day of his
weaning.
9 And when Sara had seen the son of Agar,
the Egyptian, playing with Isaac, her son, she
said to Abraham:
10 Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for
the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with
my son Isaac.
11 Abraham took this grievously for his son.
12 And God said to him: Let it not seem
grievous to thee for the boy, and for thy bond-
woman: in all that Sara hath said to thee, hear-