Last week we posed Paul a question from Genesis 9 about Noah and his drunken nakedness.

Today's question comes a few chapters later in Genesis 20.

Is Abrams sinning for lying to Abimelech and saying that Sarah was his sister?

Shouldn't he have trusted God to protect him and Sarah, or was

his deceit justified because he was protecting himself and his wife from evil? So because

I want everybody who is watching or listening to these answers to get the story, I want to read the passage that it came from.

Now, there was a famine in the land,

and Abraham went down to Egypt to sojourn there,

for the famine was severe in the land.

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai, his wife,

I know that you are a woman, beautiful in appearance, and when the Egyptians see you, they will say,ai, his wife, I know that you are a woman beautiful appearance, and when the Egyptians

see you, they will say, this is his wife. Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.

Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for

your sake. When Abraham entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was

very beautiful, and when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman

was taken into Pharaoh's house. And for her sake, he dealt well with Abraham, and he had sheep, oxen,

male donkeys, male servants, female servants,

female donkeys, and camels. But the Lord afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because

of Sarah, Abraham's wife. So Pharaoh called Abraham and said, what is this you have done to me? Why did you not

tell me that she was your wife? Why did you say she is my sister?

So I took her for my, so that I took her for my wife.

Now then, here is your wife, take her and go.

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