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.
13. The man became rich and continued to prosper until he became very wealthy.
14. For he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great number of servants so that the Philistines envied him.
15. For the Philistines had stopped up all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father by filling them with dirt.
16. Abimelek said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much more powerful than we are.”
17. So Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
18. Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names his father had called them.