346 B

Raw Blame History

What is this you have done to us?

"You should not have done this to us!"

might easily have lain with your wife

The word "lain" here is a euphemism for "had sexual relations."

you would have brought guilt upon us

"you would have caused us to be guilty of taking a man's wife"

upon us

Here "us" refers to Abimelech and his people.