Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would you destroy a nation even though it is innocent? Didn’t he himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this with a clear conscience[a] and clean[b] hands.”

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience.[c] I have also kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I have not let you touch her.

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Footnotes

  1. 20:5 Lit with integrity of my heart
  2. 20:5 Lit cleanness of my
  3. 20:6 Lit with integrity of your heart

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