Genesis 20:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then in the dream God replied to him,“Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. That is why I have kept you from sinning against me and why I did not allow you to touch her.

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  • 1 Sam 25:26 : 26 “Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and as surely as you live, it is the LORD who has kept you from shedding blood and taking matters into your own hands. Now may your enemies and those who seek to harm my lord be like Nabal.
  • 1 Sam 25:34 : 34 Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives– he who has prevented me from harming you– if you had not come so quickly to meet me, by morning’s light not even one male belonging to Nabal would have remained alive!”
  • Ps 51:4 : 4 Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me.
  • Gen 31:7 : 7 but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.
  • Gen 39:9 : 9 There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”
  • Exod 34:24 : 24 For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
  • Lev 6:2 : 2 “When a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by deceiving his fellow citizen in regard to something held in trust, or a pledge, or something stolen, or by extorting something from his fellow citizen,
  • Gen 35:5 : 5 and they started on their journey. The surrounding cities were afraid of God, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.
  • Gen 3:3 : 3 but concerning the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the orchard God said,‘You must not eat from it, and you must not touch it, or else you will die.’”
  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
  • Gen 26:11 : 11 So Abimelech commanded all the people,“Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For the LORD God is our sovereign protector. The LORD bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.
  • Prov 21:1 : 1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.
  • Hos 2:6-7 : 6 The Lord’s Discipline Will Bring Israel Back Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way. 7 Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”
  • 1 Cor 7:1 : 1 Celibacy and Marriage Now with regard to the issues you wrote about:“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
  • 2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Therefore“come out from their midst, and be separate,” says the Lord,“and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,
  • 2 Thess 2:7 : 7 For the hidden power of lawlessness is already at work. However, the one who holds him back will do so until he is taken out of the way,
  • 2 Thess 2:11 : 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false.

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  • Gen 20:2-5
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    2Abraham said about his wife Sarah,“She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.

    3But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him,“You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.”

    4Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said,“Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?

    5Did Abraham not say to me,‘She is my sister’? And she herself said,‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”

  • Gen 20:7-13
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    7But now give back the man’s wife. Indeed he is a prophet and he will pray for you; thus you will live. But if you don’t give her back, know that you will surely die along with all who belong to you.”

    8Early in the morning Abimelech summoned all his servants. When he told them about all these things, they were terrified.

    9Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him,“What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!”

    10Then Abimelech asked Abraham,“What prompted you to do this thing?”

    11Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

    12What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.

    13When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her,‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me,“He is my brother.”’”

  • Gen 26:9-11
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    9So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said,“She is really your wife! Why did you say,‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied,“Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”

    10Then Abimelech exclaimed,“What in the world have you done to us? One of the men nearly took your wife to bed, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

    11So Abimelech commanded all the people,“Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

  • Gen 39:8-9
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    8But he refused, saying to his master’s wife,“Look, my master does not give any thought to his household with me here, and everything that he owns he has put into my care.

    9There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

  • Gen 22:12
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    12“Do not harm the boy!” the angel said.“Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”

  • Gen 12:18-19
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    18So Pharaoh summoned Abram and said,“What is this you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

    19Why did you say,‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now, here is your wife. Take her and go!”

  • Gen 31:29
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    29I have the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night,‘Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’

  • Gen 31:24
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    24But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,“Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”

  • Gen 31:11
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    11In the dream the angel of God said to me,‘Jacob!’‘Here I am!’ I replied.

  • Gen 24:7
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    7“The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath,‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 22:16
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    16and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

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    26“I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied.“Moreover, you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”

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    29“You know how I have worked for you,” Jacob replied,“and how well your livestock have fared under my care.

  • Gen 28:16
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    16Then Jacob woke up and thought,“Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!”

  • Gen 31:6-7
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    6You know that I’ve worked for your father as hard as I could,

    7but your father has humiliated me and changed my wages ten times. But God has not permitted him to do me any harm.

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    22At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham,“God is with you in all that you do.

    23Now swear to me right here in God’s name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you.”

  • Gen 26:2
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    2The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

  • Gen 12:13
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    13So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”

  • Gen 31:9
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    9In this way God has snatched away your father’s livestock and given them to me.

  • Gen 26:24
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    24The LORD appeared to him that night and said,“I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

  • Gen 37:6
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    6He said to them,“Listen to this dream I had: