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Genesis 20:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Genesis 20:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 20
God Corrects His Faithful Ones.[a] 1 Abraham broke camp and traveled into the Negeb, settling between Kedesh and Shur. He was dwelling in Gerar. 2 Abraham had said that Sarah, his wife, was his sister. Therefore, Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent to take Sarah for himself.
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- Genesis 20:1 This episode, the first that is surely from the Elohist tradition, seems to be another version of the incident already recorded in 12:10-20; among other reasons for saying this, it is not in its proper place, since it must have happened at an earlier time when Sarah was not yet expecting a son. The depiction of Sarah as Abraham’s half-sister is a sign of the historical character of the story; the community of Israel would not have invented for the Patriarch a marriage that the Mosaic Law forbade as incestuous (Lev 18:9; 20:17).
