Verse 9
Genesis 26:9
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
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And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקְרָ֨א אֲבִימֶ֜לֶךְ לְ/יִצְחָ֗ק וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אַ֣ךְ הִנֵּ֤ה אִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֙ הִ֔וא וְ/אֵ֥יךְ אָמַ֖רְתָּ אֲחֹ֣תִ/י הִ֑וא וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָי/ו֙ יִצְחָ֔ק כִּ֣י אָמַ֔רְתִּי פֶּן אָמ֖וּת עָלֶֽי/הָ
English Translation
And Abimelech called to Isaac and said, "But behold, your wife is she; and how did you say, 'She is my sister'?" And Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die on account of her.'"
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Chapter 26 Context
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And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Is...
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And Jehovah appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tel...
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sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed...
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and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; an...
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because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say,...
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And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines look...
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And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She...
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And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain wi...
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And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be...
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And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him.
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And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:
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and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistin...
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Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philist...
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And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
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And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
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And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father; for th...
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And Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
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And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the...
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And they dug another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
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And he removed from thence, and dug another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the na...
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And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
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And Jehovah appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God (Elohim) of Abraham thy father:...
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And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there: and th...
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Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.
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And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away fr...
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And they said, We saw plainly that Jehovah was with thee: and we said, Let there now be an oath betw...
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that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but...
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And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
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And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and the...
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And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which...
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And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
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And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Base...
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and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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