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Genesis 26:12

Verse 12 of 35. The 26th of 50 chapters in Genesis, in The Law.

8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

9Abimelech 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.’”

10Abimelech 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!”

11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.

13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

14He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

15Now 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.

16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.