Génesis 20:3

3 Pero Dios vino a Abimelec en un sueño de noche, y le dijo: He aquí, eres hombre muerto por razón de la mujer que has tomado, pues está casada.

Génesis 20:3 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 20:3

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night
Put a dream into his mind, by which he cautioned him against taking Sarah to be his wife; so careful was the Lord that no wrong should be done to such a godly and virtuous person, to which she was exposed through the weakness of her husband. Aben Ezra wrongly interprets this of an angel, when it was God himself: and said unto him, behold, thou [art but] a dead man, for the woman
which thou hast taken;
that is, God would punish him with death, unless he restored the woman, whom he had taken, to her husband; not for any uncleanness he had committed with her, but for taking her without her free and full consent, and without inquiring more strictly into her relation to Abraham, and connection with him, and for his impure and unlawful desires after her, if persisted in: for she [is] a man's wife,
or "married to an husband" ^F3; and therefore it was unlawful in him to take her to be his wife.

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FOOTNOTES:

F3 (leb tleb) "maritata marito", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator, Schmidt.

Génesis 20:3 In-Context

1 Y Abraham partió de allí hacia la tierra del Neguev, y se estableció entre Cades y Shur; entonces estuvo por un tiempo en Gerar.

2 Y Abraham dijo de Sara su mujer: Es mi hermana. Entonces Abimelec, rey de Gerar, envió y tomó a Sara.

3 Pero Dios vino a Abimelec en un sueño de noche, y le dijo: He aquí, eres hombre muerto por razón de la mujer que has tomado, pues está casada.

4 Mas Abimelec no se había acercado a ella, y dijo: Señor, ¿destruirás a una nación aunque sea inocente?

5 ¿No me dijo él mismo: "Es mi hermana"? Y ella también dijo: "Es mi hermano." En la integridad de mi corazón y con manos inocentes yo he hecho esto.