6 ^mSo Isaac settled in Gerar. 7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, ⁿ“She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should ^okill me because of Rebekah,” because she was ^pattractive in appearance. 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac ^qlaughing with¹ Rebekah his wife. 9 So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” 10 Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and ^ryou would have brought guilt upon us.” 11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

12 And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, 13 and the man became ^srich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. 14 He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. 15 (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells ^tthat his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) 16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for ^uyou are much mightier than we.”