⁶ So Isaac settled in Gerar. ⁷ 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] 8} 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.