Genesis 26:11

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, Every man that touches this man and his wife shall be liable to death.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

10And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou done this to us? one of my kindred within a little had lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought a sin of ignorance upon us.

12And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found in that year barley a hundredfold, and the Lord blessed him.

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Cross References

Psalms 105:15And he gave them their request, 1 And sent fullness into their souls. 1

Zechariah 2:8and spoke to him, saying, Run and speak to that young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be fully inhabited by reason of the abundance of men and cattle in the midst of her.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:7-12

Isaac's Denial of His Wife. ( b. c. 1840.) 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. 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. 9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said,… Read the whole commentary →

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