8So Abimelech got up early in the morning and sent for all his servants and gave them word of these things, and they were full of fear.
9Then Abimelech sent for Abraham, and said, What have you done to us? what wrong have I done you that you have put on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? You have done to me things which are not to be done.
10And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?
11And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.
12And, in fact, she is my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife:
13And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.
14Then Abimelech gave to Abraham sheep and oxen and men-servants and women-servants, and gave him back his wife Sarah.