Genesis 20:6

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Summary

And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

Withheld

Sinning

2 Thessalonians 2:7

To touch

Bible References

Withheld

For shutting up, Jehovah shut up without every womb to the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten parts; and God gave him not to do evil by me.

And they will remove; and the terror of God will be upon the cities which are surrounding them; and they pursued not after the sons of Jacob.

For I will dispossess the nations from before thee; and I enlarged thy bound: and a man shall not desire thy land in thy coming up to see the face of Jehovah thy God, three times in the year.

And now my lord, Jehovah lives and thy soul lives, for Jehovah withheld thee from coming by blood, and saving thy hand to thyself, and now thine enemies shall be as Nabal, they seeking out evil to my lord.

For Jehovah God a sun and shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; he will not withhold good to those going uprightly.

Steams of waters the heart of the king, in the hand of Jehovah: upon all which he shall delight in he will turn it

Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.

Sinning

Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God?

When a soul shall sin and cover a transgression against Jehovah, and lie against his neighbor in a deposit, or in trust of the hand, or in robbery, or oppressing his neighbor;

Against thee, thee alone, did I sin, and I did evil in thine eyes: so that thou wilt be justified in thy speaking, and thou wilt be pure in thy judging.

And I will send him forth in the hardnesses of their heart: they shall go in their counsels.

For the mystery of iniquity is already energetic: only he withholding, even till he be out of the midst.

To touch

And from the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, Ye shall not eat from it, and ye shall not touch upon it, lest ye shall die.

And Abimelech will command all the people, saying, He touching this man and his wife, dying, shall die.

And of what ye wrote to me: good for a man not to touch a woman.

Therefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean; and I will receive you.