Genesis 26:7

Qui cum interrogaretur a viris loci illius super uxore sua, respondit: Soror mea est: timuerat enim confiteri quod sibi esset sociata conjugio, reputans ne forte interficerent eum propter illius pulchritudinem.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6Mansit itaque Isaac in Geraris.

8Cumque pertransissent dies plurimi, et ibidem moraretur, prospiciens Abimelech rex Palæstinorum per fenestram, vidit eum jocantem cum Rebecca uxore sua.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:13Dic ergo, obsecro te, quod soror mea sis: ut bene sit mihi propter te, et vivat anima mea ob gratiam tui.

Genesis 20:2Dixitque de Sara uxore sua: Soror mea est. Misit ergo Abimelech rex Geraræ, et tulit eam.

Genesis 20:12alias autem et vere soror mea est, filia patris mei, et non filia matris meæ, et duxi eam in uxorem.

Proverbs 29:25Qui timet hominem cito corruet; qui sperat in Domino sublevabitur.

Ephesians 5:25Viri, diligite uxores vestras, sicut et Christus dilexit Ecclesiam, et seipsum tradidit pro ea,

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