Genesis 20

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1 Abraão partiu dali para região do Negeb. Estabeleceu-se entre Cadés e Sur, e viveu algum tempo em Gerara.	1 Abraham advanced from there into the southern land, and he lived between Kadesh and Shur. And he sojourned in Gerar.
2 Ele dizia de Sara, sua mulher, que ela era sua irmã. Abimelec, rei de Gerara, arrebatou-lha.	2 And he said about his wife Sarah: “She is my sister.” Therefore, Abimelech, the king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.
3 Mas Deus apareceu em sonhos a Abimelec e disse-lhe: Vais morrer, por causa da mulher que roubaste, porque é casada.	3 Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: “Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband.”
4 Abimelec, que não a tinha tocado {ainda}, disse: Senhor, fareis perecer mesmo inocentes?	4 In truth, Abimelech had not touched her, and so he said: “Lord, would you put to death a people, ignorant and just?
5 Não me disse ele que ela era sua irmã? E ela mesma me disse: É meu irmão. É na simplicidade de meu coração e com as mãos puras que fiz isso.	5 Did he not say to me, ‘She is my sister,’ and did she not say, ‘He is my brother?’ In the sincerity of my heart and the purity of my hands, I have done this.”
6 Deus disse-lhe em sonhos: Sei que é na simplicidade do teu coração que agiste assim; por isso, preservei-te de pecar contra mim, e não deixei que a tocasses.	6 And God said to him: “And I know that you have acted with a sincere heart. And therefore I kept you from sinning against me, and I did not release you to touch her.
7 Devolve agora a mulher deste homem, que é profeta, e ele rogará por ti para que conserves a vida. Mas, se não a devolveres, sabes que morrerás seguramente, tu e todos os teus.	7 Now therefore, return his wife to the man, for he is a prophet. And he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you are not willing to return her, know this: you shall die a death, you and all that is yours.”
8 Ao romper da manhã, Abimelec convocou todos os seus servos e referiu-lhes essas coisas. Todos ficaram muito atemorizados.	8 And immediately Abimelech, rising up in the night, called all his servants. And he spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were very afraid.
9 Depois, Abimelec chamou Abraão e disse-lhe: Que nos fizeste? Em que te ofendi para que nos expusesses, a mim e ao meu reino, ao castigo de um tão grande pecado. Fizeste-me o que não devias fazer.	9 Then Abimelech called also for Abraham, and he said to him: “What have you done to us? How have we sinned against you, so that you would bring so great a sin upon me and upon my kingdom? You have done to us what you ought not to have done.”
10 E ajuntou: Que tiveste em vista agindo assim?	10 And remonstrating him again, he said, “What did you see, so that you would do this?”
11 Abraão respondeu: Eu pensava comigo que não havia certamente nenhum temor a Deus nesta terra, e que me matariam por causa de minha mulher.	11 Abraham responded: “I thought to myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place. And they will put me to death because of my wife.
12 Aliás, ela é realmente minha irmã, filha de meu pai, mas não de minha mãe; ela tornou-se minha mulher.	12 Yet, in another way, she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her as a wife.
13 Quando Deus me tirou da casa de meu pai, eu disse-lhe: Faze-me esta graça: onde quer que formos, dirás de mim que sou teu irmão.	13 Then, after God led me out of my father’s house, I said to her: ‘You will show this mercy to me. In every place, to which we will travel, you will say that I am your brother.’ ”
14 Tomou então Abimelec ovelhas, bois, servos e servas, e deu-os a Abraão, ao mesmo tempo que lhe devolvia Sara, sua mulher.	14 Therefore, Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men servants and women servants, and he gave them to Abraham. And he returned his wife Sarah to him.
15 E disse-lhe: Minha terra está à tua disposição: fixa-te onde quiseres.	15 And he said, “The land is in your sight. Dwell wherever it will please you.”
16 Disse também a Sara: Dou a teu irmão mil moedas de prata: isto te será um véu sobre os olhos para todos aqueles que estão contigo; eis-te justificada.	16 Then to Sarah he said: “Behold, I have given your brother one thousand silver coins. This will be for you as a veil for your eyes, to all who are with you and wherever you will travel. And so, remember that you were taken.”
17 Abraão intercedeu junto de Deus, que curou Abimelec, sua mulher e suas servas, e deram novamente à luz.	17 Then when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they gave birth.
18 Porque o Senhor tinha ferido de esterilidade todas as mulheres da casa de Abimelec, por causa de Sara, mulher de Abraão.	18 For the Lord had closed every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.