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Genesis 26:10

““What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.””
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8When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

9Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

10“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

11So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

12Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

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