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Genesis 26:8-14 Modern English Version (MEV)

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.

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