Genesis 26:7

Modern English Version

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, “The men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful in appearance.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:11

When he was getting near to Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know you are a beautiful woman.

Genesis 12:13

Say you are my sister so that I may be treated well for your sake. Then my life will be spared because of you.”

Genesis 12:15

The princes of Pharaoh saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, and she was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “Because I thought, surely there is no fear of God in this place, and they will slay me because of my wife.

Genesis 20:2

Then Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for her and took Sarah.

Genesis 20:5

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

Genesis 24:16

The young woman was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, and no man had ever been with her. She went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up.

Genesis 26:6

So Isaac lived in Gerar.

Genesis 26:8

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

Genesis 29:17

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

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of man brings a snare, but he who trusts in the Lord will be safe.

Matthew 10:28

Do not fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie one to another, since you have put off the old nature with its deeds,