World English Bible

Genesis 26:6

“Isaac lived in Gerar.”

Verse in context — Genesis 26

4

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

5

because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

6

Isaac lived in Gerar.

7

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.

8

It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

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