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So Isaac settled in Gerar. When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking[a] “the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful.”[b] And it happened that, when he had been there a long time,[c] Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw—behold—Isaac was fondling Rebekah his wife.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 26:7 Or “lest”
  2. Genesis 26:7 Literally “good of appearance”
  3. Genesis 26:8 Literally “when the days there were long to him”