3. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you; for I will give to you and all your descendants all these lands, and I will fulfill the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
4. I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens and will give your descendants all these lands. By your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
5. because Abraham obeyed Me and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
6. So Isaac lived in Gerar.
7. The men of the place asked him about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” thinking, “The men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful in appearance.”
8. When he had been there a long time, Abimelek the king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah his wife.
9. Abimelek summoned Isaac and said, “She is surely your wife, so how is it you said, ‘She is my sister’?”Then Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘I might die on account of her.’ ”
10. Abimelek said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might have easily lain with your wife, and you might have brought guilt upon us!”
11. Abimelek charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
12. Then Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; the Lord blessed him.