12. It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

13. Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

He said, "Lord God, how will I know that I will inherit it?"

12. Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

13. The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

14. Is anything too hard for The LORD? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."

Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

2. Abraham said about Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

3. But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man's wife."

4. Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

5. Didn't he tell me, 'She is my sister?' She, even she herself, said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this."

6. God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn't allow you to touch her.

7. Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."

8. Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

10. Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

11. Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife", lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."

Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?"