Biblia Sacra (Gutenberg Bible)

and she was turned into a statue of salt. But Abraham, rising in the morning where he had stood before with the Lord, looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole land of that region. And he saw ashes ascending from the earth, as the smoke of a furnace. For when the Lord was destroying the cities of that region, he remembered Abraham, and delivered Loth from the destruction of the cities in which he had dwelt. And Loth went up from Segor and stayed in the mountain, and his two daughters with him. For he had feared to stay in Segor, and he stayed in a cave, he and his two daughters with him. And the elder said to the younger: Our father is old, and there remains no man on earth who can enter in to us according to the custom of the whole earth. Come, let us make him drunk with wine, and let us sleep with him, so that we may preserve offspring from our father. Therefore they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the elder entered and slept with her father. But he did not perceive either when the daughter lay down or when she rose. On the other day the elder said to the younger: Behold, I slept yesterday with my father. Let us give him wine to drink also tonight, and you shall sleep with him, that we may save seed from my father. They gave their father wine to drink also that night. And the younger daughter entered and slept with him. And not even then did he perceive when she lay with him, or when she rose. Therefore the two daughters of Loth conceived by their father. And the elder bore a son and called his name Moab from the father. He is the father of the Moabites even to the present day. And the younger bore a son and called his name Amon son of my people, that is, the son of my people; he is the father of the Ammonites to this day. Ch. 20.

A large red decorative initial 'P' with light blue and red penwork flourishes marks the start of Chapter 20.
Abraham departed from there into the southern land and lived between Cades and Sur, and he journeyed in Geraris Gerar. And he said concerning Sara Sarah, his wife: She is my sister. Therefore Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent and took her. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him: Behold, you shall die because of the woman whom you have taken, for she has a husband. But Abimelech had not touched her and said: Lord, will you kill an innocent and just nation? Did not he himself say to me: She is my sister? And she said: He is my brother. In the simplicity of my heart and cleanness of my hands I have done this. And God said to him: I know that you have done this with a simple heart, and for this reason I kept you from sinning against me, and did not permit you to touch her. Now, therefore, restore the wife to her husband, for he is a propheta prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live. But if you will not restore her, know that you shall die the death, you and all that are yours. And Abimelech, rising immediately by night, called all his servants and spoke all these words in their ears. And all the men were greatly afraid. But Abimelech also called Abraham and said to him: What have you done to us? What have we sinned against you, that you have brought upon me and upon my kingdom a great sin? You have done things to us that you ought not to have done. And again, arguing, he said: What did you see that you should do this? Abraham answered: I thought within myself, saying: Perhaps there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife. Moreover, she is truly my sister, the daughter of my father, and not the daughter of my mother, and I took her to wife. And after God brought me out of my father's house, I said to her: You shall do this kindness to me; in every place to which we shall go, you shall say that I am your brother. Therefore Abimelech took sheep and oxen and servants and handmaids and gave them to Abraham. And he returned Sara his wife to him, and said: The land is before you; live wherever it pleases you. But to Sara he said: Behold, I have given a thousand pieces of silver to your brother. This shall be to you...