Genesis 26:7

English Standard Version 2016

When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance.

Cross References

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Genesis 20:2

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

Genesis 12:13

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

Genesis 24:16

The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

Colossians 3:9

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

Ephesians 5:25

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

Matthew 10:28

And 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.

Genesis 20:5

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

Genesis 12:11

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

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 26:6

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

Genesis 26:8

When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.

Genesis 29:17

Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.

Genesis 12:15

And when the princes of Pharaoh saw her, they praised her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.