Genesis 26:7

Tree of Life Version

Now the men of the place asked about his wife. So he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “my wife”—“or else the men of the place would kill me on account of Rebekah, because she’s good looking.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:11

Just as he was about to enter Egypt he said to Sarai his wife, “Look, please, I know that you are an attractive woman.

Genesis 12:13

Please say that you are my sister, so that I’ll be treated well for your sake, and my life will be spared because of you.”

Genesis 12:15

Indeed, Pharaoh’s officials saw her and they raved about her to Pharaoh. Then the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

Genesis 20:11

Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘There is certainly no fear of God in this place, so they’ll kill me, because of my wife.’

Genesis 20:2

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

Genesis 20:5

Didn’t he say to me, ‘She’s my sister’? And she herself even said, ‘He’s my brother.’ I did this with integrity of my heart and guiltlessness of my hands.”

Genesis 24:16

Now the young woman was very good looking, a girl of marriageable age, and she was a virgin. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.

Genesis 26:6

So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

Genesis 26:8

Now after he had been there for a long time, King Abimelech of the Philistines peered down through the window and saw, behold, Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Genesis 29:17

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

Proverbs 29:25

Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but one who trusts in Adonai will be kept safe.

Matthew 10:28

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives just as Messiah also loved His community and gave Himself up for her

Colossians 3:9

Do not lie to one another. After all, you have taken off the old self with its practices