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Genesis Chapter 20 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Genesis 20:17

And Abraham prayed unto God. And God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants. And they bare children.
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BBE Genesis 20:17

Then Abraham made prayer to God, and God made Abimelech well again, and his wife and his women-servants, so that they had children.
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DARBY Genesis 20:17

And Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, and his wife and his handmaids, and they bore [children].
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KJV Genesis 20:17

So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
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WBT Genesis 20:17

So Abraham prayed to God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
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WEB Genesis 20:17

Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants, and they bore children.
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YLT Genesis 20:17

And Abraham prayeth unto God, and God healeth Abimelech and his wife, and his handmaids, and they bear:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - So Abraham prayed unto God. Literally, the Elohim, the personal and true God, and not Elohim, or Deity in general, to whom belonged the cure of Abimelech and his household (Keil), as the next clause shows. And God (Elohim, without the art.) healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; - i.e. his concubines, as distinguished from the women servants (Ver. 14) - and they bare children. The verb may apply to both sexes, and the malady under which they suffered may be here described as one which prevented procreation, as the next verse explains.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Abraham prayed . . . --As Abimelech had now made very liberal compensation, it became the duty of Abraham to intercede for him. The malady seems to have been one confined to Abimelech, as its object was to protect Sarah; but in some way it so affected the whole household as to produce general barrenness.Maidservants.--Not the word rendered women-servants in Genesis 20:14, but one specially used of concubines.