⁶ So Isaac settled in Gerar. ⁷ When the men of the place asked concerning his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “my wife,” thinking^[a] “the men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she was beautiful.”^{[b] 8} And it happened that, when he had been there a long time,^[c] Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked through the window, and saw—behold—Isaac was fondling Rebekah his wife. ⁹ And Abimelech called Isaac^[d] and said, “Surely she is your wife. Now why did you say ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I thought I would die on account of her.” ¹⁰ And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have slept with your wife! Then you would have brought guilt upon us!” ¹¹ Then Abimelech instructed all the people, saying, “The one who touches this man or his wife shall certainly die.”