Isaac settled in Gerar. The inhabitants of that place asked about Rebekah his wife, and he said: “This is my sister,” because he was afraid to say: “my wife.” “So that the inhabitants of this place do not kill me,” he thought, “for Rebekah, because she is beautiful in appearance.” But when he had already lived there for a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking out the window, saw that Isaac was playing with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelech called Isaac and said:
- Here, this is your wife; How did you say: she is my sister?
Isaac told him:
“Because I thought I shouldn’t die for her.”
But Abimelech said to him:
-What have you done to us? As soon as one of my people had not copulated with your wife, you would have led us into sin.
And Abimelech gave a commandment to all the people, saying: whoever touches this man and his wife will be put to death. And Isaac sowed in that land and received barley a hundredfold that year: so the Lord blessed him. And the man became great and increased more and more until he became very great.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru