6. So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7. When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say “my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.”
8. When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9. Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’? ”Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
10. Then Abimelech said, “What is this you’ve done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”
11. So Abimelech warned all the people with these words: “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly die.”
12. Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped a hundred times what was sown. The Lord blessed him,
13. and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.
14. He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and many slaves, and the Philistines were envious of him.
15. The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s slaves had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.