Genesis 26:7

Plain English Version

The men in Gerar saw Isaac’s wife Rebekah, and they asked Isaac, “Who is that woman?” You know, Rebekah was very beautiful. So Isaac got worried about those men. He thought, “Maybe those men want to marry Rebekah. If I tell them that she is my wife, maybe they will kill me to get her.” So Isaac lied and said, “She is my sister.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:11

Just before they got to Egypt, Abram said to his wife Sarai, “You are a really beautiful woman.

Genesis 12:13

So listen. You have to tell everyone that you are my sister. Then they will be good to me, and they will not kill me.”

Genesis 12:15

Some of them worked for the big boss of Egypt, and they told him, “Sarai is really beautiful.” So that big boss took her to live in his house.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “I’m sorry. I thought that nobody here respected God, so I was frightened of you mob. I reckoned that you would kill me so that you can marry Sarah.

Genesis 20:2

While Abraham and Sarah were in Gerar, Abraham told everyone that his wife Sarah was his sister, not his wife. The big boss of Gerar was called Abimelek. He believed Abraham, so he sent somebody to get Sarah so that he could marry her.

Genesis 20:5

Abraham told me himself that Sarah was his sister. And she said that Abraham was her brother. I didn’t know that she was already married to him. I didn’t want to do anything wrong.”

Genesis 24:16

Rebekah was a very beautiful young woman, and she wasn’t married. She never slept with a man, like a woman sleeps with her husband. Rebekah got to the water-hole, and she went down to the water and filled up her jar, and then she came back up.

Genesis 26:6

So Isaac set up his camp in Gerar, just like God told him to.

Genesis 26:8

After that, Isaac and Rebekah lived in Gerar for a long time. But one day Abimelek, the big boss of the Philistia people, he looked out of his window, and he saw Isaac hugging Rebekah. Then Abimelek knew that Rebekah was Isaac’s wife.

Matthew 10:28

Don’t be frightened of those people that can only kill your body. They can’t kill your soul. But you have to listen to God. If you don’t do what he says, you have to be frightened. He can finish up your body, and then he can also finish up your soul too, in that bad place called hell.

Ephesians 5:25

Yes, and you men that are husbands, you have to do your part too. You have to always love your wives properly, just like Jesus Christ loves the people in his church properly. Jesus let people kill him so that he could save us.

Colossians 3:9

Don’t lie to each other. You see, you believed in Jesus, and you stopped living that old way. You stopped doing bad things.