Genesis 26:7-9
Legacy Standard Bible
7 Then the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, “(A)She is my sister,” for he was (B)afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is (C)beautiful in appearance.” 8 Now it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window and saw, and behold, Isaac was [a]caressing his wife Rebekah. 9 Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife! How then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’”
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Genesis 26:7-9
New International Version
7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,(A)” 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.”
8 When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines(B) looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah. 9 So Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?(C)”
Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
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