Genesis 20:5 meaning and explanation
Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
Genesis 20:5, Berean Standard Bible
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These are Abimelech's words to God in a dream, after God warned him that Sarah, whom he had taken, was Abraham's wife. The king defends himself: both Abraham and Sarah had said they were siblings, so his motive was not lust.
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