16 Likewise to Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is the [a]veil of thine eyes to all that are with thee, and to all others: and she was [b]thus reproved.

17 ¶ Then Abraham prayed unto God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his women servants: and they bare children.

18 For the Lord [c]had shut up every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 20:16 Such an head, as with whom thou mayest be preserved from all dangers.
  2. Genesis 20:16 God caused this heathen King to reprove her because she dissembled, seeing that God had given her an husband as her veil and defense.
  3. Genesis 20:18 Had taken away from them the gift of conceiving.

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