Genesis 20-21; Job 9-10; Proverbs 6-8;
Commentary on Genesis 20:
- Abraham goes to Gerar, a territory in southern Palestine, near Gaza.
- There, he tells the same lie to the King of Gerar, Abimelech, that he told to the Pharaoh: that Sara is his sister, and not his wife. Later, we discover that this is a “half-truth”. Abraham is Sara’s half-sister, they have the same father but different mothers.
- The King takes Sara as his wife, but God appears to him in a dream, saying that He kept him from sinning, and that if he doesn’t return Sara, he’ll be punished.
- Abimelech then restores Sara to Abraham and gives him animals and slaves.
- God restores fertility in the house of the king after having had “closed all the wombs”.