Genesis 26:7 - New Revised Standard Version

⁷ When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “My wife,” thinking, “or else the men of the place might kill me for the sake of Rebekah, because she is attractive in appearance.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ And the men of the place asked him about his wife, and he said, She is my sister; for he was afraid to say, She is my wife–[thinking], Lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she is attractive and is beautiful to look upon.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

Common English Bible

⁷ When the men who lived there asked about his wife, he said, “She’s my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, The men who live there will kill me for Rebekah because she’s very beautiful.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And when he was questioned by the men of that place about his wife, he answered, "She is my sister." For he was afraid to confess her to be his mate, thinking that perhaps they would put him to death because of her beauty.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And when he was asked by the men of that place, concerning his wife, he answered: She is my sister. For he was afraid to confess that she was his wife, thinking lest perhaps they would like him because of her beauty.

Genesis 26:7 Cross References

Genesis 12:11

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “I know well that you are a woman beautiful in appearance;

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister, so that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared on your account.”

Genesis 12:15

When the officials of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “I did it because I thought, There is no fear of God at all in this place, and they will kill me because of my wife.

Genesis 20:2

Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” And King Abimelech of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

Genesis 20:5

Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

Genesis 24:16

The girl was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.

Genesis 26:6

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

Genesis 26:8

When Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw him fondling his wife Rebekah.

Genesis 29:17

Leah's eyes were lovely, and Rachel was graceful and beautiful.

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of others lays a snare, but one who trusts in the Lord is secure.

Matthew 10:28

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices