Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Genesis 26
⁶ So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.
⁷ And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, "She is my sister"; for he was afraid to say, "She is my wife," because he thought, "lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold."
⁸ Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife.
⁹ Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Quite obviously she is your wife; so how could you say, ’She is my sister’?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, ’Lest I die on account of her.’ "
¹⁰ And Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us."
¹¹ So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."
¹² Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him.
¹³ The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous;
¹⁴ for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.
¹⁵ Now the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, and they had filled them with earth.
¹⁶ And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."