¶ So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he said, She is my sister: for he [a]feared to say, she is my wife, lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me, because of Rebekah, for she was beautiful to the eye.

So after he had been there a long time, Abimelech King of the Philistines looked out at a window, and lo, he saw Isaac [b]sporting with Rebekah his wife.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 26:7 Whereby we see that fear and distrust is found in the most faithful.
  2. Genesis 26:8 Or showing some familiar sign of love, whereby it might be known that she was his wife.

So Isaac stayed in Gerar.(A)

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,(B)” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines(C) looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

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