Previously on the Chosen People

You've drawn the attention of Pharaoh's officials.

And because of that, we should be prepared to tell them,

you're my sister, not my wife.

This is for your protection as well as my own.

If you've drawn the eye of a prominent Egyptian,

as your brother, my life would be spared.

So you'd lie.

Abram, you would tell a half-truth and deny me the protection of my husband?

Lie to spare yourself and ship me off to an Egyptian warlord?

Sarah, I'm afraid.

I see too many similarities in these people to the ones we've dealt with in the past.

I'm terrified for my life.

As the heads of our people, we will be a target. I fear that they will use you against me, or take you from me, or worse.

We've survived this threat before, Abraham.

I know we have. I hope we do so again. I would call upon your loyalty as my wife again.

I would have you tell everyone that you are my sister.

Please do this for me.

Please go along with this.

So I can rest easily.

And Abraham was forced to watch as his wife was taken away from his care for a second time.

His blood boiled with anger, not against Abimelech, but against himself.

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