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Genesis 20:4

Genesis chapter 20 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?

Context

v.3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman whom thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

v.4This passage

v.5Said he not himself unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and the innocency of my hands have I done this.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 18:23

    And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou consume the righteous with the wicked?

  • Genesis 20:17

    And Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bare children.

  • 1 Chronicles 21:17

    And David said unto God, Is it not I that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? let thy hand, I pray thee, O Jehovah my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against thy people, that they should be plagued.

  • 2 Samuel 4:11

    How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

  • Genesis 19:24

    Then Jehovah rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;

  • Genesis 20:6

    And God said unto him in the dream, Yea, I know that in the integrity of thy heart thou hast done this, and I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.