Genesis 20:1-18
Abraham and Abimelech
20:1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,
20:2 Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
20:3 But 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.”
20:4 Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, “Lord, would you really slaughter an innocent nation?
20:5 Did 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!”
20:6 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.
20:7 But 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.”
20:8 Early in the morning Abimelech summoned all his servants. When he told them about all these things, they were terrified.
20:9 Abimelech 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!”
20:10 Then Abimelech asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?”
20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’
20:12 What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife.
20:13 When 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.”’”
20:14 So Abimelech gave sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him.
20:15 Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”
20:16 To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your ‘brother.’ This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.”
20:17 Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children.
20:18 For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 1:9
1:9 God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place and let dry ground appear.” It was so.
Genesis 12:13
12:13 So 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.”
John 6:53-58
6:53 Jesus said to them, “I tell you the solemn truth,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you have no life
in yourselves.
6:54 The one who eats
my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
6:55 For my flesh is true
food, and my blood is true
drink.
6:56 The one who eats
my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.
6:57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes
me will live because of me.
6:58 This
is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread your ancestors
ate, but then later died.
The one who eats
this bread will live forever.”
Hebrews 3:14
3:14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence
firm until the end.
Hebrews 3:1
Jesus and Moses
3:1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess,
Hebrews 1:3
1:3 The Son is
the radiance of his glory and the representation of his essence, and he sustains all things by his powerful word,
and so when he had accomplished cleansing for sins,
he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Hebrews 1:7
1:7 And he says
of the angels, “
He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”