Abimelech Pleads — Will You Kill an Innocent Nation

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 20:4

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·April 20, 2026

But Abimelek had not come nigh to defile her; and he said, Lord, shall the son of a people who hath not sinned, and whom it is right to absolve in the judgment, be killed?

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