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Genesis 26:7 - The Scriptures 1998

7 And when the men of the place asked about his wife, 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 Riḇ

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Genesis 26:7
15 Cross References  

And it came to be, when he was close to entering Mitsrayim, that he said to Sarai his wife, “See, I know that you are a fair woman to look at.


“Please say you are my sister, so that it shall be well with me for your sake, and my life be spared because of you.”


And Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her before Pharaoh, and the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.


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


And the young woman was very good-looking, a maiden, no man having known her. And she went down to the fountain, filled her jar, and came up.


And it came to be, when he had been there a long time, that Aḇ


The fear of man brings a snare, But whoever trusts in יהוה  is set on high.


“And do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the being. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both being and body in Gehenna.


Husbands, love your wives, as Messiah also did love the assembly and gave Himself for it,


Do not lie to each other, since you have put off the old man with his practices,


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