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    "content": "Genesis, Chapter 20 — 18 verses (Douay-Rheims)",
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  "citation": "Genesis 20 (Douay-Rheims)",
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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Abraham removed from thence to the south country, and dwelt between Cades and Sur, and sojourned in Gerara.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "And he said of Sara his wife: She is my sister. So Abimelech the king of Gerara sent, and took her.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:2 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "And God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and he said to him: Lo thou shalt die for the woman that thou hast taken: for she hath a husband.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 4,
      "text": "Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just?",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Did not he say to me: She is my sister: and she say, He is my brother? in the simplicity of my heart, and cleanness of my hands have I done this.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 7,
      "text": "Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet: and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "And Abimelech forthwith rising up in the night, called all his servants: and spoke all these words in their hearing, and all the men were exceedingly afraid.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 9,
      "text": "And Abimelech called also for Abraham, and said to him: What hast thou done to us? what have we offended thee in, that thou hast brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? thou hast done to us what thou oughtest not to do.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 10,
      "text": "And again he expostulated with him, and said: What sawest thou, that thou hast done this?",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 11,
      "text": "Abraham answered: I thought with myself, saying: Perhaps there is not the fear of God in this place: and they will kill me for the sake of my wife:",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Howbeit, otherwise also she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: Thou shalt do me this kindness: In every place, to which we shall come, thou shalt say that I am thy brother.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and gave to Abraham: and restored to him Sara his wife,",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "And said: The land is before you, dwell wheresoever it shall please thee.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "And to Sara he said: Behold I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, this shall serve thee for a covering of thy eyes to all that are with thee, and whithersoever thou shalt go: and remember thou wast taken.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 17,
      "text": "And when Abraham prayed, God healed Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bore children:",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:17 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 18,
      "text": "For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech, on account of Sara, Abraham's wife.",
      "citation": "Genesis 20:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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