Kejadian 20:3

20:3 But God appeared ¹  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead ²  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” ³ 

Kejadian 20:8

20:8 Early in the morning ⁴  Abimelech summoned ⁵  all his servants. When he told them about all these things, ⁶  they ⁷  were terrified.

Kejadian 20:10

20:10 Then Abimelech asked ⁸  Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” ⁹ 

[20:3]  ¹ tn Heb “came.”

[20:3]  ² tn Heb “Look, you [are] dead.” The Hebrew construction uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with a second person pronominal particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with by the participle. It is a highly rhetorical expression.

[20:3]  ³ tn Heb “and she is owned by an owner.” The disjunctive clause is causal or explanatory in this case.

[20:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “And Abimelech rose early in the morning and he summoned.”

[20:8]  ⁵ tn The verb קָרָא (qara’) followed by the preposition לְ (lamed) means “to summon.”

[20:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “And he spoke all these things in their ears.”

[20:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “the men.” This has been replaced by the pronoun “they” in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[20:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “And Abimelech said to.”

[20:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “What did you see that you did this thing?” The question implies that Abraham had some motive for deceiving Abimelech.