⁷ When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, “^(A)She is my sister,” for he was ^(B)afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking, “^[a]the men of the place might kill me on account of Rebekah, since she is ^(C)beautiful.” ⁸ Now it came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down through a window, and saw them, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah. ⁹ Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she certainly is your wife! So how is it that you said, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘otherwise I might be killed on account of her.’”