Genesis 26:11

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Avimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have slept with thy isha, and thou shouldest have brought asham (guilt) upon us.

12Then Yitzchak sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and Hashem blessed him.

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Cross References

Psalms 105:15Saying, Touch not Mine meshichim (anointed ones, My Messianics), 1 and do My nevi'im no harm. 1

Zechariah 2:8And said unto him: Run, speak to this na'ar (young man) + 2:8 i.e. see 2:5 saying: 1 Yerushalayim shall be inhabited like unwalled cities 1 because of the multitude of men and cattle therein; 1

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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