But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “You are to die because of the woman that you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבא
19
אלהים
86
אלאבימלך
134
בחלום
86
הלילה
80
ויאמר
257
לו
36
הנך
75
מת
440
עלהאשה
411
אשרלקחת
1039
והוא
18
בעלת
502
בעל
102
Genesis 20:4
Gematria: 1689
ואבימלךלאקרבאליהויאמראדניהגויגםצדיקתהרג
Now Abimelech had not approached her. He said, “O lord, lord See the Dictionary under “male metaphors for God.” will You slay people even though innocent?
And God said to him in the dream, “I knew that you did this with a blameless heart, and so I kept you from sinning against Me. That was why I did not let you touch her.
Therefore, restore the man’s wife—since he is a prophet, he will intercede for you—to save your life. If you fail to restore her, know that you shall die, you and all that are yours.”
Early next morning, Abimelech called his servants and told them all that had happened; and they ” See the Dictionary under ’ish. were greatly frightened.
Then Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What wrong have I done that you should bring so great a guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקרא
317
אבימלך
103
לאברהם
278
ויאמר
257
לו
36
מהעשית
825
לנו
86
ומהחטאתי
479
לך
50
כיהבאת
438
עלי
110
ועלממלכתי
646
חטאה
23
גדלה
42
מעשים
460
אשר
501
לאיעשו
417
עשית
780
עמדי
124
Genesis 20:10
Gematria: 2734
ויאמראבימלךאלאברהםמהראיתכיעשיתאתהדברהזה
What, then,” Abimelech demanded of Abraham, “was your purpose in doing this thing?”
So when God made me wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘Let this be the kindness that you shall do me: whatever place we come to, say there of me: He is my brother.’”
And to Sarah he said, “I herewith give your brother a thousand pieces of silver; this will serve you as vindication before all who are with you, and you are cleared before everyone.”
Translation Notes
*vindication — Lit. “a covering of the eyes”; meaning of latter half of verse uncertain.