my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
026:006 Isaac lived in Gerar.
026:007 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."
026:008 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.
026:009 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife.
Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him,
"Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
026:010 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 on us!"
026:011 Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this
man or his wife will surely be put to death."
026:012 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one
hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
026:013 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he
became very great.
026:014 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds,
and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
026:015 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in
the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped,
and filled with earth.
026:016 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much
mightier than we."
026:017 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar,
and lived there.