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But Abimelech had not slept with Sarah. So he said, “Lord, would you destroy an innocent nation? Abraham himself told me, ‘This woman is my sister.’ And she also said, ‘He is my brother.’ I am innocent. I did not know I was doing anything wrong.”

Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did not realize what you were doing. So I did not allow you to sin against me. I did not allow you to sleep with her.

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Now Abimelek had not gone near her, so he said, “Lord, will you destroy an innocent nation?(A) Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,(B)’ and didn’t she also say, ‘He is my brother’? I have done this with a clear conscience(C) and clean hands.(D)

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept(E) you from sinning against me.(F) That is why I did not let you touch her.

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