“What did you see [or imagine], that you did this thing?” And Abraham said, “For I said [to myself], ‘It’s just that there is no fear of God in this place, and they will kill me on account of my wife.’ And in fact she is my sister, the daughter of my father—only not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife. And so, when God set me to wandering from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is the act-of-loyalty [ḥesed] that you should do for me: wherever we go, say of me, ‘He is my brother.’ ” (Gen.