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So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

The men of Gerar asked Isaac about his wife. He told them, ‘She is my sister.’ He was afraid to say, ‘She is my wife.’ He thought that the men of Gerar might kill him because Rebekah was very beautiful.[a]

Isaac stayed in Gerar for a long time. One day Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, looked down from his window. He saw that Isaac was kissing Rebekah.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 26:7 See Genesis 12:11-14.
  2. 26:8 Abimelech saw that Isaac and Rebekah were married.