for Jehovah had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

Yet your father has deceived me and changed my wages ten times, but God has not allowed him to do evil to me.

And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

For I will dispossess the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before Jehovah your God three times in the year.

Now therefore, my lord, as Jehovah lives and as your soul lives, since Jehovah has held you back from coming to blood and from delivering yourself with your own hand, now then, let your enemies and those who seek evil upon my lord be as Nabal.

For indeed, as Jehovah the God of Israel lives, who has kept me back from hurting you, unless you had hastened and come to meet me, surely by morning light there would not have been left to Nabal any who urinate against a wall!

For Jehovah God is a sun and shield; Jehovah will give grace and glory; no good thing will He withhold from those who walk in integrity.

The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah; like rivers of water, He turns it wherever He pleases.

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will close off her wall, so that she shall not find her paths.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not reach to them. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil, and sin against God?

If a soul sins and commits a trespass against Jehovah by lying to his neighbor about what was delivered into his hand for safekeeping, or about a pledge, or about a robbery, or if he has extorted from his neighbor,

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done evil in Your sight; that You might be found just when You speak, and pure when You judge.

So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He is now restraining, until it is raised from out of the midst.

And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,

but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall die the death.

Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Therefore, Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.