Genesis 26:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

Proverbs 29:25

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

Genesis 20:2

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

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 24:16

The young woman 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.

Colossians 3:9

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

Ephesians 5:25

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

Matthew 10:28

Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear the one 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.’ I did this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

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 20:11

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

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 weak, but Rachel was graceful and beautiful.

Genesis 12:15

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