Gen 20:3-7 | ESV | STEP | But God came to Abimelech in a dream by 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 .

Genesis 20:3-7

3 ^aBut God came to Abimelech ^bin a dream by 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 approached her. So he said, ^c“Lord, will you kill an innocent people? 5 Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.” 6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning ^dagainst me. Therefore I did not let you touch her. 7 Now then, return the man’s wife, ^efor he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you ^fand all who are yours.”