American Standard Version
"Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation? "
— Genesis 20:4, American Standard Version
“But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?”
“Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?”
“Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said,“Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?”
“Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?”
“Now Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, Lord, will you put to death an upright nation?”
“But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?”
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.
But 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.
Now Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay even a righteous nation?
Said 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.
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.
Now therefore restore the man’s wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.