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Genesis 26:10

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And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

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  1. Genesis 26:8

    And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

  2. Genesis 26:9

    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 for her.

  3. Genesis 26:11

    And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

  4. Genesis 26:12

    Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.