Genesis 26:6-11
Isaac and Abimelech
6So Isaac 1lived in Gerar. 7Then the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, “aShe is my sister,” for he was bafraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is cbeautiful in appearance.” 8Now it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window and saw, and behold, Isaac was 1caressing his wife Rebekah. 9Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife! How then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’” 10aAnd Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” 11So Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who atouches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”